Comment # 9 on bug 925371 from Dr. Werner Fink

With

      ${PWD}/hdr_KDK2.eps

it works also

  /tmp/test-dvips> grep hdr_KDK2.eps doc.tex doc.ps
  doc.tex:\special{psfile=${PWD}/hdr_KDK2.eps hoffset=0 voffset=-708}
  doc.ps:%%BeginDocument: ${PWD}/hdr_KDK2.eps
  /tmp/test-dvips> gv doc.ps