Bug 36497

Summary: latex fails because of invalid character ^Z in /usr/share/texmf/tex/latex/misc/picins.sty
Product: [Retired] Red Hat Linux Reporter: Need Real Name <richie>
Component: tetexAssignee: Tim Waugh <twaugh>
Status: CLOSED RAWHIDE QA Contact: David Lawrence <dkl>
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Description Need Real Name 2001-04-18 14:41:45 UTC 
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latex fails because of invalid character ^Z in
/usr/share/texmf/tex/latex/misc/picins.sty

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:

1.compile
\documentclass[11pt]{article}
\usepackage{german}
\usepackage[T1]{fontenc}
\usepackage[dvips]{graphicx}
\usepackage{picins}
\originalTeX
\makeindex

it's not the whole document but leads to that error

	

Actual Results:  output by latex:
......................
(/usr/share/texmf/tex/latex/misc/picins.sty
Option `picins' Version 3.0 Sep. 1992, TH Darmstadt/HRZ
! Text line contains an invalid character.
l.579 ^^Z
         
? 
! Emergency stop.
l.579 ^^Z
         
No pages of output.
Transcript written on test.log.


Expected Results:  no error

just delete that invalid character.
Comment 1 Tim Waugh 2001-05-08 23:19:41 UTC 
Fixed in 1.0.7-7.  Thanks for the report!