At 5:01 PM -0700 16/6/98, Matthew Eldridge wrote:
>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:
TMP is a sub-subdirectory that LaTeX2HTML creates to hold files
that you, as a user, probably never want to see; e.g.
> latex2html paper.tex
by default creates paper/ in which all the work is done.
Part of that work is stored in paper/TMP/
At the end of the job all the files that LaTeX2HTML created inside
paper/TMP are removed, then paper/TMP/ is itself removed...
...unless you use the -debug switch, in which case these files
are preserved so you can examine their contents.
This can be very useful in detecting where an error occured in processing.
The message Couldn't remove ./TMP/ : File exists
occurs when the rmdir command failed to remove this TMP/ directory,
because there was still a file, or files, inside.
I've seen this happen with files named .nfsxxxxxxxx ( x's are Hex/numbers )
These are not under the control of LaTeX2HTML, but disappear later anyway.
A second attempt to remove TMP usually works properly.
Conclusion: you can almost certainly ignore these messages.
If they bother you, then look for paper/TMP .
If it exists, look to see what is inside
--- don't forget to check for invisible files.
>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.
Use latex2html -debug paper.tex
Then have a look at what is in paper/ .
>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:
Yep. dvips has this problem.
> 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.
The problem is with dvips , over which we have no control.
Yes, that is a real pain.
The most recent versions of LaTeX2HTML are programmed to recognise this fact,
and do their best to avoid it.
BTW, what version are you using ?
Latest is v98.1p6 --- soon to be updated to v98.1p7 .
If you insist on using a $TMP directory in which a '.' occurs,
then you will have problems with image-generation.
LaTeX2HTML should 'die' gracefully at the point when this is detected;
otherwise dvips may attempt to write files at unexpected places.
Hope this helps,
Ross Moore
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