Hi,
I always get this error when I run latex2html:
Couldn't remove ./TMP/ : File exists
I have no idea what it is talking about, because I do the following:
latex2html paper.tex
which generates a directory called 'paper' with all the appropriate
files in it, and a subdirectory named 'l2hXXXXX' where XXXXX is the
process id I assume. There is no TMP directory involved.
I finally gave up and wrapped everything in a shell script like this:
TMP=/tmp/l2h_$$
mkdir -p $TMP
latex2html -tmp $TMP "$@"
rm -rf $TMP
which doesn't supress the error message, but puts the cruft in a
dependable place at least, so I can delete it.
The other problem this fixes is it ensures that there are no periods
(.) in the path, which is apparently a big problem for dvips. When
there are periods in the path I get this message:
Generating postscript images using dvips ...
images will be generated in
/nobackup/tmp/installdocs.8956/private/flashg/frugl/guide/paper/l2h10009/
*** there is a `.' in $TMPDIR ; dvips will fail
Set $TMP to use a /tmp directory, or rename the working directory.
$TMPDIR=/nobackup/tmp/installdocs.8956/private/flashg/frugl/guide/paper/l2h10009/
***
Is there some reason a period in the path is a problem? I'm providing
an absolute path, not a relative path, if that is what this is trying
to detect.
Thanks,
-Matthew
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