Bug#111983: tetex-bin: xdvi exits when clicking on a hyperlink to a non-existing file
Guus Sliepen <guus@sliepen.eu.org> writes:
> On Wed, Jul 09, 2003 at 12:12:25PM +0200, Hilmar Preusse wrote:
>> > 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.
> I think it's indeed fixed in the latest xdvi
(FWIW, latest xdvi is 22.76.1, not 22.40v from tetex-bin
2.0.2-4.1).
> it doesn't exit anymore when a link doesn't exist.
>> > For the second link, both should try to launch Acroread which
>> > will show its own error dialog about a non-existing file.
>> >
[ Hilmar: ]
>> Hmm -- in the first case, nothing happens,
Errm, indeed, I had only tested with 22.39, which still gave an
error. Obviously that's a new bug introduced between 22.39 and
22.40f. (Background: The entire hyperref handling in 22.4x was
hopelessly broken and was reimplemented from scratch in 22.7x,
without libwww. This probably means that all non-fatal hyperref
bugs in 22.4x which don't also occur in 22.7x should be treated
as `wontfix').
> Clicking on either link in xdvi, whether the file exists or not, gives
> me a popup claiming the file doesn't exist.
This, however, is rather strange. Were the files that you created
in the same directory as the test DVI file? (Note that the
handling of files without or with unknown extension is also
utterly wrong in 22.4x, since they will be treated as DVI files -
see above ... however, it should work OK with the links in e.g.
TETEXDOC.dvi).
Best,
Stefan
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