[tex-live] Bug in dvips 5.996 concerning special em:graph ?

[Norbert Klingen]

dvips 5.996 produces an error while dvips 5.90a works correct on the 
same dvi-file. I don't understand the error-message from dvips 5.996 
which is as follows:

Processing special: em:graph image.pcx
em:graph: special too long, truncating
em:graph: no file given


The problem with divps 5.996 occurs  in  processing a
\special{em:graph image.pcx}-entry.

Here is the LaTeX-Source mwe.ltx of a minimal example:

\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{geometry}
\geometry{a4paper,margin=0pt,noheadfoot}
\begin{document}
\special{em:graph image.pcx}%
\vspace*{3cm}\hspace*{2cm}
\Huge Text ins Formular gedruckt.
\end{document}

and here are the Logfiles from dvips:

1. dvips5.996:

This is dvips(k) 5.996 Copyright 2016 Radical Eye Software 
(www.radicaleye.com)
' TeX output 2016.12.12:0901' -> mwe.ps
Preprocessing special: papersize=597.50787pt,845.04684pt
Preprocessing special: em:graph image.pcx
<D:/TeX/texmf/dvips/base/tex.pro><D:/TeX/texmf/dvips/base/texps.pro>
<D:/TeX/texmf/dvips/base/special.pro>.
<D:/TeX/texmf/fonts/type1/public/amsfonts/cm/cmr10.pfb>
<D:/TeX/texmf/fonts/type1/public/amsfonts/cm/cmr17.pfb>[1Processing 
special: papersize=597.50787pt,845.04684pt
Processing special: em:graph image.pcx
em:graph: special too long, truncating
em:graph: no file given
]

2. dvips5.90a:

This is dvips(k) 5.90a Copyright 2002 Radical Eye Software 
(www.radicaleye.com)
' TeX output 2016.12.12:0901' -> mwe.ps
Preprocessing special: papersize=597.50787pt,845.04684pt
Preprocessing special: em:graph image.pcx
<texc.pro><texps.pro><special.pro>. <cmr10.pfb><cmr17.pfb>[1Processing 
special: papersize=597.50787pt,845.04684pt
Processing special: em:graph image.pcx
<image.pcx
em:graph: image.pcx width  2413 pixels scaled to 2413.0 pixels
em:graph: image.pcx height 3441 pixels scaled to 3441.0 pixels
 >]


Norbert Klingen