Re: xdvi mit Output

[Frank Küster <frank@kuesterei.ch>]

Hi all,

thanks Joey for reporting.  Unfortunately I'm currently very busy (both
with real life and with fixing RC tex-common bugs), so I fear I'd forget
this private e-mail, and I rather forward it to the list.  And while
we're at it, to Stefan too.

Martin Schulze <joey@infodrom.org> wrote:

> Moin,
>
> Du weisst, dass xdvi in sid bei Reload (Shift-R) auf der Konsole
> 'xdvi: File reloaded.' ausgibt, oder?  Ist vielleicht fuer die
> Version, die nachher in etch landet nicht so angebracht.

No, I wasn't aware that xdvi spits out information on the console (I
guess it's on stderr?).  I dislike such behavior, unless I specifically
requested it, but I don't see how it makes it unsuitable for release?
There are loads of programs that do things like that.

> Wenn ich zwischendurch neu kompiliere und einfach blaettere
> ohne Reload, gibt's auch 'xdvi: File corrupted (click on window to reload) ...'

Well, but these are all just unnecessary and maybe misleading
informational messages, no real problems: Everything works as expected?

Does anybody have an idea 

- what we should do with those messages

- whether they can simply be switched off in the configuration file

- or how else to do it?

Regards, Frank
-- 
Dr. Frank Küster
Single Molecule Spectroscopy, Protein Folding @ Inst. f. Biochemie, Univ. Zürich
Debian Developer (teTeX/TeXLive)