Bug#111983: tetex-bin: xdvi exits when clicking on a hyperlink to a non-existing file

[Hilmar Preusse <hille42@web.de>]

On 09.07.03 Stefan Ulrich (stefan.ulrich@dsl.pipex.com) wrote:
> Hilmar Preusse <hille42@web.de> writes:
> > On 11.09.01 Guus Sliepen (guus@sliepen.warande.net) wrote:

Hi,

> >> When displaying a dvi with hyperlinks (made with the hyperref
> >> package for LaTeX), you can click on links and a browser or viewer
> >> will be started. However, if the link points to a regular file
> >> which doesn't exist, xdvi quits. It would be more apropriate if it
> >> would just continue and give a warning
> 
> Sounds as if this was a very old version of xdvi (what's the
> output of `xdvi.bin -version')? I can reproduce this with 22.15
> (22/8/1999), but not with 22.39 (28/05/2001) and later.
> 
> My test file was:
> 
> \documentclass{article}
> \usepackage{hyperref}
> \begin{document}
> \href{asldfkj}{test1}
> 
> \href{manual.pdf}{test2}
> \end{document}
> 
> For the first link, 22.15 will exit, 22.39 and later will pop up
> a warning:
> 
>    Can't open `file:/home/ulrich/tex/asldfkj.dvi': No such file
>    or directory
> 
> For the second link, both should try to launch Acroread which
> will show its own error dialog about a non-existing file.
> 
Hmm -- in the first case, nothing happens, in the second case I get
an error from acroread and from libwww. xdvi 22.40f from Debian
stable.

Stefan, thanks for contribution!

Guus, can you reproduce that and can we close that bug?
  Hilmar 
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