[texhax] TeXLive 2005 installation

[Lars Madsen]

Walt Burkhard :

>
> I have just installed TeXLive 2005 and have noted a problem --
> possibly with my installation.   The problem does not exist
> in my TeXLive 2004 installation.
>
> It seems that dvips cannot locate an eps file to include.
>
> Here is the situation in detail:
>
> 	TeXLive 2004 installation  in /usr/TeX/
> When I run dvips I get the following message while the ps file is successfully created --
> 	This is dvips(k) 5.94b Copyright 2004 Radical Eye Software (www.radicaleye.com)
> 	' TeX output 2006.01.09:1001' -> letter.ps
> 	<tex.pro><texps.pro><special.pro>. <cmtt10.pfb>[1
> 	</home/burkhard/TEX/private_seal.ps>]
>
> 	TeXLive 2005 installion in /usr/local/texlive/2005/
> When I run dvips I get the following message while the ps file is created --
> 	This is dvips(k) 5.95b Copyright 2005 Radical Eye Software (www.radicaleye.com)
> 	' TeX output 2006.01.09:0951' -> letter.ps
> 	<tex.pro><texps.pro><special.pro>. <cmtt10.pfb>[1
> 	dvips: Could not find figure file /home/burkhard/TEX/private_seal.ps; continuing
> 	]
>
> Of course, I modify my PATH variable for these two experiments.
>
> Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated.  Many thanks in advance.
>
> Walt Burkhard
>

This has something to do with security, it is now on the TeXLive bugs list 
http://www.tug.org/texlive/bugs.html (the bug is of course that people was 
not informed of this)

You can use

dvips -RO file.dvi

or go to texmf-var/dvips/config and change this line

% z1 is "secure", i.e., inhibits execution of `shell commands` in
% \specials.  Dvips allows this by default.
z1


to

% z1 is "secure", i.e., inhibits execution of `shell commands` in
% \specials.  Dvips allows this by default.
z0





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