Bug#221793: tetex-bin: xdvi fails on compressed files in read-only directory
On 20.11.03 Julian Gilbey (jdg@polya.uklinux.net) wrote:
> 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.
>
Well, errrm. Was just an idea. Sorry!
H.
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