Rich Shepard wrote:
OSes aside, computers sometimes do things that are inexplicable to us
mere
humans. This was one of those sporatic, spastic computer tantrums that
resolved itself via benign neglect over the weekend.
I once had a computer that reversed the criteria for true and false (as
in 5 > 6 was true and 5 = 5 was false). Played havoc with a program I
was coding. Power, power on, problem resolved.
Could it be a permissions problem (pdflatex running from an account that
doesn't have read access to the PDF file)?
No, because the script writes the early parts of the report, and
generates
the plots, then incorporates those plots in the middle of the report.
Anyway, it's back to working. But, it certainly refused to work all day
Friday.
I've occasionally seen odd things happen that seemed to trace back to an
inexplicable (or inexplicably persistent) file lock. Maybe that was it.
Or maybe you should just avoid using the script on Fridays ...
/Paul
