Bug#221793: tetex-bin: xdvi fails on compressed files in read-only directory

[Hilmar Preusse <hille42@web.de>]

On 20.11.03 Chung-chieh Shan (ken@digitas.harvard.edu) wrote:

Hello,

> The recent update to xdvi makes it impossible to use xdvi to view a
> compressed dvi file in a read-only directory, such as LaTeX package
> documentation.
> 
Well -- don't assume that I'm able to speak perl, but the following
works for me[TM]. Apply it to the xdvi perl script.

H.
-- 
sigmentation fault

--- xdvi-pl	Wed Oct 29 01:41:02 2003
+++ xdvi-pl.new	Thu Nov 20 08:36:09 2003
@@ -66,6 +66,7 @@
 
 	require Fcntl;
 	my $fh = tempfile( "tetexXXXXXX",
+			   DIR => "/tmp",
 			   SUFFIX => ".dvi",
 			   UNLINK => 1 )
 	    or die "xdvi: cannot create temporary file: $!\n";