> the point is that pstricks comes with half a dozen PS prolog files, > which dvips needs to see. so i put them in texmf/dvips/pstricks, Are they really dvips-specific I though at least most of them would work as long as the dvi->ps driver had *some* mechanism of getting a header file into the final PS output?? Of course if you put them somewhere else, then you still need to tell dvips where to find them so ... David