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[Ed Reingold]

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In GNU Emacs 21.1.1 (sparc-sun-solaris2.8, X toolkit)
 of 2001-12-22 on emr
Important settings:
  value of $LC_ALL: nil
  value of $LC_COLLATE: nil
  value of $LC_CTYPE: nil
  value of $LC_MESSAGES: nil
  value of $LC_MONETARY: nil
  value of $LC_NUMERIC: nil
  value of $LC_TIME: nil
  value of $LANG: nil
  locale-coding-system: nil
  default-enable-multibyte-characters: nil

Please describe exactly what actions triggered the bug
and the precise symptoms of the bug:

I get a an error "Wrong type argument: markerp, nil" from tex-send-tex-command:

  compilation-forget-errors()
  tex-send-tex-command("/export/home/reingold/bin/mylatex lincoln-bindery2.tex" 
"/export/home/reingold/Letters/")
  tex-start-tex("/export/home/reingold/bin/mylatex" "lincoln-bindery2.tex" 
"/export/home/reingold/Letters/")
  tex-file()
  call-interactively(tex-file)

Here is the file /export/home/reingold/bin/mylatex which runs latex and does
other stuff:

#! /bin/csh -f
set file=`echo $argv[$#argv] | sed -f ~/bin/dvips-script`
latex $*
dvips -j0 -f $file".dvi" -o $file".ps"
chmod 664 $file.ps
ps2pdf $file.ps $file.pdf; chmod 664 $file.pdf &

The odd thing about this is that the above commands are run properly, and
everything looks fine in the *tex-shell* buffer:

(emr-1) /export/home/reingold/bin/mylatex lincoln-bindery2.tex
This is TeX, Version 3.14159 (Web2C 7.3.1)
(lincoln-bindery2.tex
LaTeX2e <2000/06/01>
(/export/home/reingold/.tex/tex/latex/base/letter.cls
Document Class: letter 1999/04/29 v1.2z Standard LaTeX document class
(/export/home/reingold/.tex/tex/latex/base/size10.clo))
(/export/home/reingold/.tex/iit-letterhead.sty
Document Style 'Reingold IIT letterheads'. Released 23 Jan 2001
(/export/home/reingold/.tex/tex/generic/pstricks/pstricks.sty
(/export/home/reingold/.tex/tex/generic/pstricks/pstricks.tex
`PSTricks' v97 patch 10  <1999/03/24> (tvz)
(/export/home/reingold/.tex/tex/generic/pstricks/pstricks.con))))
(/export/home/reingold/.tex/tex/plain/dvips/latex209/epsf.sty)
Overfull \hbox (38.56833pt too wide) in paragraph at lines 51--51
|  $[]$ 

Overfull \vbox (9.72363pt too high) has occurred while \output is active
[1] [2] )
(see the transcript file for additional information)
Output written on lincoln-bindery2.dvi (2 pages, 2912 bytes).
Transcript written on lincoln-bindery2.log.
dvips:  @+ in config files must immediately following a @ lines
This is dvips(k) 5.86 Copyright 1999 Radical Eye Software (www.radicaleye.com)
' TeX output 2002.03.20:1124' -> lincoln-bindery2.ps
<texc.pro><pstricks.pro><pst-dots.pro><8r.enc><texps.pro><special.pro>. [1] 
[2</export/home/reingold/emr-signature.ps>] 
[1] 3156



Recent input:
<switch-frame> <switch-frame> <switch-frame> <switch-frame> 
<switch-frame> <switch-frame> <switch-frame> <switch-frame> 
<down-mouse-1> <mouse-movement> <mouse-1> C-x C-f L 
e t <tab> l i n c o <tab> 2 <tab> <return> <down-mouse-1> 
<mouse-1> C-c C-f C-c C-k C-c C-l <escape> v C-x o 
<escape> v C-v <help-echo> <down-mouse-1> <mouse-movement> 
<mouse-1> C-c C-f C-c C-l C-c C-f <escape> x t r a 
c e <tab> <return> C-c C-f <help-echo> <help-echo> 
<help-echo> <help-echo> <help-echo> <help-echo> <menu-bar> 
<help-menu> <report-emacs-bug>

Recent messages:
Loading easy-mmode...done
Loading mule-util...done
Loading tex-mode...done
tex-send-tex-command: Wrong type argument: markerp, nil
call-interactively: Beginning of buffer
tex-send-tex-command: Wrong type argument: markerp, nil [2 times]
stack-trace-on-error on
Loading view...done
tex-send-tex-command: Wrong type argument: markerp, nil
Loading emacsbug...done