Reuben Thomas wrote:

> One big disadvantage of the usual export method (it doesn't prompt for
> a filename) is that to export a DVI, PS or text form of a document in
> a directory for which you don't have write permission, you have to
> save the LyX document in your directory first. An "Export as..."
> option would be nice, or even just a file selector every time with the
> default name already filled in, so that you can normally just click
> OK, but change directory and click OK if you want.

There's a "dirty trick" to do it: Use Export->Custom and pipe it to the
shell command "cat > filename.ext"

  Peter

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