Bug#221793: tetex-bin: xdvi fails on compressed files in read-only directory
On Thu, Nov 20, 2003 at 08:43:49AM +0100, Hilmar Preusse wrote:
> 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.
> --- 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 )
That overrides the user's setting of TMPDIR, which is probably not
desired.
Julian
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