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

[Hilmar Preusse <hille42@web.de>]

On 20.11.03 Ken Shan (ken@digitas.harvard.edu) wrote:
> On 2003-11-20T09:42:20+0000, Julian Gilbey wrote:

> > Works for me.  Have you set TMPDIR to something weird?
> 
> No; I don't have TMPDIR set at all.  (I had TMP set, but unsetting it
> had no effect on the problem.)
> 
> After investigating further, I believe the fix is to add
> 
>     DIR => File::Spec->tmpdir,
> 
> to the argument list of tempfile.  I don't know why things work for you.
> (Just to make sure, the problem occurs when the current directory is
> unwritable.)
> 
Julian has checked i a new version into cvs, which works at least for
me and doesn't show that bug. You may check it out:

cvs -d:pserver:anonymous@cvs.debian.org:/cvs/tetex co tetex-bin/debian/xdvi-pl

H. 
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