[OS X TeX] DVIPS config file

[Vinayak Vatsal]

On 16-Jan-06, at 4:00 PM, Peter Dyballa wrote:

>
> Am 16.01.2006 um 23:29 schrieb Vinayak Vatsal:
>
>> This is precisely the problem -- I ran dvips with the path search  
>> debug flags set, and there's no trace that dvips _ever_ looked for  
>> $HOME/.dvipsrc, as it supposed to do. The file certainly exists  
>> and used to be found correctly. According to the TeXLive  
>> documentation found at
>
> One thing has changed: dvips has become a secure programme! Now it  
> does not load files that are above . -- could be ~/.dvipsrc is  
> treated as such a dangerous non-system file.
>
> Could you try to invoke dvips with +R?
>


Doesn't seem to work. Manually setting DVIPSRC as GW suggested didn't  
work either. As far as I can tell, the .dvipsrc file is simply  
ignored. And the documentation is not helpful -- it seems to say  
unequivocally that the file is to loaded between config.ps and any  
command line arguments.


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Vinayak Vatsal
Department of Mathematics
University of British Columbia
Vancouver, BC
Canada




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