From received mail:

Hi,
by accident I found that a2ps dumps core if invoked with
options for the old a2ps version.

a2ps -f -F7.0

reproduces the problem. With the following patch the problem
seems to be cured.

The patches work.

Submitted by:	Oliver Adler <oli@devsoft.devsoft.com>

print/a2ps-letter/files/patch-ae

@@ -0,0 +1,18 @@
+--- lib/options.c.orig	Tue Jun 27 23:02:30 2000
++++ lib/options.c	Tue Jun 27 23:06:26 2000
+@@ -489,6 +489,15 @@
+ 	  /* A font size is given */
+ 	  job->fontsize = get_length ("--font-size", cp,
+ 				      0.0, 0.0, "pt", range_min_strict);
++	  if (job->fontsize == 0.0) 
++	  {
++	    error (0, 0, _("invalid argument %s for -f or --font-size option"),
++	      cp);
++	    fprintf (stderr,
++	      _("Valid arguments are floats with optonal units!\n"));
++	    fprintf (stderr, _("Try `a2ps --help' for more information.\n"));
++	    exit (EXIT_FAILURE);
++	  }
+ 	  job->columns_requested = 0;
+ 	  job->lines_requested = 0;
+ 	}