[tex-live] Perhaps OT: temporary files of otftotfm

[Ulrike Fischer]

Am Mon, 8 Feb 2010 00:51:08 +0100 schrieb Reinhard Kotucha:

> On 7 February 2010 Ulrike Fischer wrote:
> 
>  > Hello, I'm not sure this is the right place to ask, but I think
>  > there is a chance that someone knows the answer ;-)
>  > 
>  > I'm trying to use the windows binaries from http://w32tex.org/ of
>  > the lcdf-typetools.
>  > 
>  > When calling otftotfm I get the error message
>  > otftotfm: temporary file '\s1so.4': Permission denied
>  > 
>  > This looks as if otftotfm tries to write at the root of the drive.
>  > 
>  > I can avoid the problem by calling otftotfm with admin rights. I
>  > probably can also avoid the problem by changing the permissions.
>  > Both possibilities don't appeal to me. 
>  > 
>  > Has someone a idea how I could tell otftotfm to use another folder
>  > for this temporary files?
>  > (a setting in a texmf.cnf would be ok, otftotfm is installed in a
>  > mini  texmf with kpathsea).

> Ulrike, I'm not sure whether it works, but you could try:
> 
>   set TMPDIR=%TEMP%

This didn't work ;-(. So I will have to wait until the bug mentioned
by Akira is corrected.



-- 
Ulrike Fischer