Bug#51586: marked as done ("secure" mode in dvips should be the default)
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Subject: "secure" mode in dvips should be the default
From: eichin@thok.org (Mark W. Eichin)
Date: 29 Nov 1999 22:07:33 -0500
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The dvips "-R" option tells it to run "securely", ie. to *not* allow
execution of backtick-escapes in \special, among other things. This
should really be the default (although that would be a local change, I
have seen it made at other sites before.)
I haven't tested to see if it *is* already the default - if it is,
then the info file and man page need to be updated to say so, they
both indicate that insecure-mode is default.
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From: Christoph Martin <martin@uni-mainz.de>
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Date: Fri, 19 May 2000 09:51:55 +0200 (MET DST)
To: Atsuhito Kohda <kohda@pm.tokushima-u.ac.jp>, 51586-done@bugs.debian.org
Subject: Re: Bug#51586: no reason is presented
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Atsuhito Kohda writes:
> Hi tetex-maintainer,
>
> The bur report presented no reason why dvips should use
> '-R' option as default. On the contrary \special is
> very common recently so it might be much better that
> '-R' is not used by default IMHO.
>
> At least if the user never encountered the real problem
> then this would be not a bug at all.
>
This could be a whishlist bug, but since nobody else seconded..
Closing
Christoph
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