Re: [tex-k] secure mode of dvips should be default

2001-06-04 Thread janl
Sebastian Rahtz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> tastet: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > > would work. It would very much fit the old Unix philosophy of small > > tools working together. > > It was/is a good philosophy, but it assumed that people were nice. As > with so many other things, the minority of n

Re: [tex-k] secure mode of dvips should be default

2001-06-04 Thread janl
[EMAIL PROTECTED] tastet: > Do you have a release schedule for TeXLive? Thomas Esser came up with > some comments about incompatible .enc files and such that we're adressing. A patch for t1lib has been submitted to the maintainer and has been comitted to the xdvik cvs. The next release of xdvik

Re: [tex-k] secure mode of dvips should be default

2001-06-04 Thread janl
"Sebastian Rahtz" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> tastet: > I don't think its needed. the only sensible daily use for the commands > is decompression, better done by linking in the right libraries. The > concept of "trusted commands" is too woolly (in my opinion) Bah. The key here is that the trusted comman

Re: [tex-k] secure mode of dvips should be default

2001-06-02 Thread janl
"Sebastian Rahtz" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> tastet: > I just need to compile it all and test... (I am doing this because I > am also integrating the latest T1-aware xdvik into TeXLive. Does the ... Do you have a release schedule for TeXLive? Thomas Esser came up with some comments about incompatible .

Re: (fwd) xdvi reserves unnecesary colormap entries (#35633)

2000-09-30 Thread janl
Christoph Martin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> tastet: > I just tried to reproduce this bug and I can't find the problem in the > recent version. Is it fixed? Can I close the bugreport? Not fixed by the xdvik person (me). Did debian add a patch? Where did you get it from? There is another version with mo

Re: [Erik Thiele: Bug#59346: why the hell is he starting a netscape ?]

2000-03-20 Thread janl
Christoph Martin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> tastet: ... To answer the question in your subject line: Why the hell are you asking xdvi to open a file it can't open? Since xdvi is a nice HTTP and MIME aware program it tries to help you out, by starting netscape, since that is how it comes configured in t