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From: iwm@asun2.ic.ac.uk (Ian Moor)
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Subject: Re: dvi2ps hacking
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>The problem is in "the suffix" not
>the "preefix". amsy10.100 is odd-sounding to my machine because there
>are no font files that end in ".1000". None. 

I've seen one or two different formats for TeX font names, if the
file extension is limited to 3 chars or large directories are discouraged
then they look like:
    /lib/tex/fonts/1000/amsy10.pxl
rather than
   /lib/tex/fonts/amsy10.pxl1000

It may be that if file name length is limited, the `pxl' has been dropped.

Somewhere in dvi2ps you will find a call to sprintf with the name and size
of font as its arguments, what you need to do is change the format string
to conform to local conventions. I cant be more specific as I don't have
the source online.