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From: sommer@BINAH.CC.BRANDEIS.EDU
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Subject: WARNING: 1.2GB disks on VAX; QUESTION: rotate.tex
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Date: 8 Mar 91 05:11:54 GMT
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First, a warning to people using 1.2 GB disks with VAX/VMS $<$ 5.4. My sys
manager has informed me that our disk (where all my latex stuff is located)
will be inaccessible until we upgrade to VMS 5.4. It seems that there is a
"bug" in the DEC controller software that only counts up to 1.0 GB. It
might accidentally overwrite block 1 of $>$ 1 GB disks and wipe out your
disk, disk access and all of its contents! (This is a non-cosci/non-ee
person's understanding of the situation; so check the details with {\it
reliable\/} sources.)

Anyway, a while back someone posted a correction to rotate.tex. The 
corrected line was:

\def\rotfinish{\escspec{currentpoint currentpoint grestore setfont moveto}}
                ^^^^^^^
but now when I LaTeX foo.tex I get an error that \escspec is undefined. 

Sure enough, in my original rotate.tex, there is no \def\escspec . I think
these are the relevant lines from the original I use:

[...]
\def\vspec#1{\special{ps:#1}}%  passes #1 verbatim to the output
\def\rotstart#1{\vspec{gsave currentpoint currentpoint translate
   #1 neg exch neg exch translate}}% #1 can be any origin-fixing transformation
\def\rotfinish{\vspec{currentpoint grestore moveto}}% gets back in synch
[...]

I'd try a few simple replacements on my own but can't access my files for a
few days so I am asking the net in advance: Should I SIMPLY change \escspec
to \vspec? or the \vspec's to \escspec's? Will it matter which? Is there a
fully fixed version of rotate.tex archived somewhere? Where, please?
THANKS!

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