Problem with pplatex (I think)

[Paul A. Rubin]

Hi all,

Over on the user list, in the thread starting with 
<news://news.gmane.org:119/[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Giovanni 
Ciampaglia reported a problem (LyX 1.4.2, WinXP) with View->DVI hanging. 
 After some debugging (some of it out-of-band), it appears that pplatex 
is producing a valid DVI, but then the post-processing portion is 
failing.  The error message is

pplatex: Process input file tesi.dvi
pplatex: tesi.dvi: Permission denied
Error: Non riesco a convertire il file

which I think suggests that the dvipost portion of the effort is failing 
to overwrite the DVI file.  The bug is somewhat intermittent, but he 
reports consistent success if he changes the LaTeX->DraftDVI converter 
back to plain latex.

I hesitated to put this in bugzilla, because it sounds more like a 
problem with pplatex than with any LyX code, but I thought I'd pass it 
along.

Cheers,
Paul