%%BeginData: doesn't contain a length

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This was reported by Stefan Fritsch a bit before 2005-07-20 on bugs.debian.org about sam2p 0.44-10:

Not including a length after the %%BeginData: line. As I understand it, the length is not optional (see the DSC spec p.44 (and gsview output?)). Sam2p 0.44-11 adds a ; after to this line. What does this ; do? Is this supposed to be conforming to the postscript standard? If not, are you planning to write a real fix?

Answer of @pts:

Fixing it would require a major rewrite. However, I don't have free time for that right now. If you really care about standards, remove the %%BeginData...%%EndData pair from the PostScript file or remove it altogether from the sam2p sources. The ; is there so GSView won't complain.

The bug in sam2p is still not fixed.