Re: Bug#299877: tetex-bin: texdoc contains undefined command

[weg@indiscrete.org (Eythan Weg)]

On Thu, 17 Mar 2005 07:49:20 +0100,
 Frank Küster <frank@debian.org> wrote:

  Eythan Weg <weg@indiscrete.org> schrieb:
    
    > Package: tetex-bin
    > Version: 3.0-2
    > Severity: normal
    >
    > Texdoc  sometimes produces the line:
    > /usr/bin/texdoc: line 198: setupTmpDir: command not found
    >
    > For example 
    >  texdoc pdftex-a 
    
  Cannot reproduce it here. Can you please try with
    
  sh -x texdoc pdftex-a

In my version of texdoc as (checksum 
  2f1f52efcbd09491bffcf1db287bf7be  /usr/bin/texdoc  
)  I see that  setupTmpDir was defined once
but was commented out.  So perhaps it is not
needed... And in fact I commented out line 198 to
no apparent ill effect.

I think that compressed dvi files are treated
normally i.e, uncompressed by texdoc and then
shown.  Is this the intension?  And related to
this, xdvi fails with compressed files.
like here: 
xdvi /usr/share/doc/texmf/latex/exam/examdoc.dvi.gz 
xdvi.bin: Fatal error: Could not open `/dev/fd/3': Bad address.

Eythan