[l2h] $DVIPS_SAFE flag broken?

[Fred L. Drake, Jr.]

  I just tried setting the $DVIPS_SAFE flag to true (1) in versions
99.2beta8 and 2K.1beta, but it didn't seem to have any affect; I still
got the message:

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This is LaTeX2HTML Version 2K.1beta (1.55)
by Nikos Drakos, Computer Based Learning Unit, University of Leeds.
 
Revised and extended by:
 Marcus Hennecke, Ross Moore, Herb Swan and others
...producing markup for HTML version 4.0
 
 
 
Loading /usr/local/lib/latex2html/versions/html4_0.pl
 
 *** processing declarations ***
 
Loading /usr/local/lib/latex2html/versions/latin1.pl
 
 
 *** Fatal Error --- but easy to fix ***
 
Cannot have '.' in file-name prefix, else dvips fails on images
Change the name from  /home/fdrake/projects/python/Doc-2.2/api/api.tex  and try
again.
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  Any suggestions?  I'd really like to turn off this behavior; I'd
expect a better approach would be to detect the failure of dvips when
it actually happens, and stop running at that point.


  -Fred

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Fred L. Drake, Jr.  <fdrake at acm.org>
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