Re: Bug#299877: tetex-bin: texdoc contains undefined command
weg@indiscrete.org (Eythan Weg) schrieb:
> 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
Meanwhile I found it. I don't know why it didn't happen here, but I
fixed it nevertheless.
>
> 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.
Yes, it's completely useless, and I removed it now.
> 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.
That is a different issue; and indeed a bug I do not understand right
now. I'll open a separate bug for it.
Eythan, your observations are extremely valuable for us!
Regards, Frank
--
Frank Küster
Inst. f. Biochemie der Univ. Zürich
Debian Developer
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