#2476 dvips doesn't read the config.ps

[U_Fischer]

As has been mentioned on the mailing list dvips seems to no longer recognize paper options.

I tested it and can confirm that dvips -ta3 test-utf8 on a hello world document has no effect in miktex, while it gives an A3-ps in texlive.

The problem seems to be that dvips doesn't read the config.ps When I set the environment variable DVIPSDEBUG then miktex outputs:

C:\Users\USER\Documents\tests>set DVIPSDEBUG=-1

C:\Users\USER\Documents\tests>dvips  test-utf8
{C:/Users/USER/AppData/Local/MiKTeX/2.9/dvips/config/psfonts.map}
This is dvips(k) 5.996 Copyright 2016 Radical Eye Software (www.radicaleye.com)
' TeX output 2016.05.18:2209' -> test-utf8.ps
<C:/Users/USER/MikTeX/dvips/base/tex.pro>
<C:/Users/USER/MikTeX/dvips/base/texps.pro>.
<C:/Users/USER/MikTeX/fonts/type1/public/amsfonts/cm/cmr12.pfb>
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while the output of texlive begins with the call of config.ps:

C:\Users\USER\Documents\tests>dvips  test-utf8
{c:/texlive/2016/texmf-dist/dvips/config/config.ps}
{c:/texlive/2016/texmf-var/fonts/map/dvips/updmap/psfonts.map}

The curious thing is that in a trace one can see that dvips searches and access config.ps:

[2556] TRACE dvips.core - accessing file C:\Users\USER\MikTeX\dvips\config\config.ps: OK 

[Christian Schenk]

Thank you. This has been fixed now. MiKTeX-Dvips found the config files(s). But loading the file(s) did not happen.