Re: buggy gcc (was Re: wrong $SELFAUTOPARENT (xdirname bug?))

2000-02-10 Thread David Kastrup
ady a subset of Pascal. Probably the use of global variables, something not very popular within native C programming, has to do with this. David Kastrup Phone: +49-234-32-25570 Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Fax: +49-234-32-14209 Institut für Neuroinformatik, Unive

Re: \jobname

2001-07-19 Thread David Kastrup
to the log file. The log file has to be opened, and it is named \jobname.log. David Kastrup Phone: +49-234-32-25570 Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Fax: +49-234-32-14209 Institut für Neuroinformatik, Universitätsstr. 150, 44780 Bochum, Germany

Re: finally: new texmf tarball (beta-20011128)

2001-12-02 Thread David Kastrup
ow. That's my personal opinion, of course. -- David Kastrup, Kriemhildstr. 15, 44793 Bochum Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: 2001/12/02 pretest

2002-01-20 Thread David Kastrup
he EC fonts, like cmsuper or so? Or has this already happened? -- David Kastrup, Kriemhildstr. 15, 44793 Bochum Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: texexec & teTeX

2002-05-27 Thread David Kastrup
I su back to my home dir (or to root), the error > remains. What does echo $PATH tell? What does env|grep "^PATH=" tell? > Starting a new console works if I don't su anywhere. > > I have installed the following in /etc/profile.d/texsetup.sh (based on advice > fr

Re: 2002-08-25 pretest

2002-08-28 Thread David Kastrup
finite period of time. How about telling that to the Omega developers? -- David Kastrup Phone: +49-234-32-25570 Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Fax: +49-234-32-14209 Institut für Neuroinformatik, Universitätsstr. 150, 44780 Bochum, Germany

Stack size limit?

2002-09-10 Thread David Kastrup
bad. So perhaps one should let TeX automatically set a stack size limit, roughly what ulimit -s 1024 or so would do. After all, TeX is known to have potentially unlimited stack growth, so when the OS has a mechanism for keeping growth limited, and when unlimited growth is a known cause for trouble..

Re: Omega+teTeX

2002-09-10 Thread David Kastrup
of a system where nobody cares enough to provide a useful release. And that also means you. If you think I sound like a complete ***, this may be just because I am, but that does not change the principal problem. -- David Kastrup Phone: +49-234-3

Re: Stack size limit?

2002-09-12 Thread David Kastrup
lease pass on this letter as well, if it is not too much trouble and if he is not reading the pretest list. -- David Kastrup Phone: +49-234-32-25570 Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Fax: +49-234-32-14209 Institut für Neuroinformatik, Universitätsstr. 150, 44780 Bochum, Germany

Re: Thai Support in MakeIndex?

2002-09-24 Thread David Kastrup
do no harm. But your changes are small, and applicable for quite a few other languages, so they might make sense after all in Makeindex. -- David Kastrup Phone: +49-234-32-25570 Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Fax: +49-234-32-14209 Institut für Neuroinformatik, Univer

Re: 20030112 breaks dvips -o "|lpr"

2003-01-16 Thread David Kastrup
having a user call some program by that way. But you never should then let the user transfer a file name by itself, or he could equally maliciously specify /etc/passwd as the target file. I just don't get it. -- David Kastrup, Kriemhildstr. 15, 44793 Bochum

Re: 20030112 breaks dvips -o "|lpr"

2003-01-16 Thread David Kastrup
ocesses can write, I don't think it a security problem if one can specify output to a pipe. In particular, since you could in the same place specify output to /etc/passwd. I hope you get my point why I think config files should not be looked for in `.'. > That would be great, indeed. I pl

Re: 20030112 breaks dvips -o "|lpr"

2003-01-16 Thread David Kastrup
ith `.' unless you disable security explicitly. And I would not bother about people that do so. -- David Kastrup, Kriemhildstr. 15, 44793 Bochum

Re: 20030112 breaks dvips -o "|lpr"

2003-01-16 Thread David Kastrup
> directory, which is distressingly common). If a user unpacks something into his home directory where all sorts of configuration files are kept, TeX security is the least worry of the user. How about retricting the panicking to those cases where a user is acting in a remotely sane manner? -- David Kastrup, Kriemhildstr. 15, 44793 Bochum

Re: 20030112 breaks dvips -o "|lpr"

2003-01-16 Thread David Kastrup
options security relevant and won't accept them from a file in a TeX-writable place (. or below or so). -- David Kastrup, Kriemhildstr. 15, 44793 Bochum

Re: 20030112 breaks dvips -o "|lpr"

2003-01-16 Thread David Kastrup
mand line options specified by the filter programmer. -- David Kastrup, Kriemhildstr. 15, 44793 Bochum

Re: 20030112 breaks dvips -o "|lpr"

2003-01-19 Thread David Kastrup
and we oughtn't to use them now, > because we might be so damnably stupid as to pipe the output into > something inappropriate? One has to say that there is little point in prohibiting calling an arbitrary program when we could instead just be overwriting an arbitrary output file. -- David Kastrup, Kriemhildstr. 15, 44793 Bochum

An easy documented way to use eTeX as default LaTeX engine

2003-01-22 Thread David Kastrup
shells usually) to using eTeX. Again, I don't have a clue about the outcome of the current discussions, but there is already minor functionality in the LaTeX core (the trace package) that benefits from using an eTeX core, and it appears likely that this will increase. So I advise to prep

Re: An easy documented way to use eTeX as default LaTeX engine

2003-01-22 Thread David Kastrup
David Kastrup <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I would want to draw attention to some discussions happening on the > latex-l developer list. About a month ago I proposed that with the > release of next LaTeX, eTeX should be recommended as default engine to > use for the "lat

Re: An easy documented way to use eTeX as default LaTeX engine

2003-01-27 Thread David Kastrup
Olaf Weber <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > David Kastrup writes: > > > So I would propose some easy change or at least documentation to that > > effect that will make > > latex -> etex &latex > > olatex -> tex &latex (for testing out stuff in ol

Re: teTeX-2.0 - second release candidate

2003-01-31 Thread David Kastrup
it would be definitely not nice to Addison Wesley and Knuth to suggest by a bad placement of those files that people were allowed to use them freely. -- David Kastrup, Kriemhildstr. 15, 44793 Bochum

Re: teTeX-2.0

2003-02-03 Thread David Kastrup
e me think about my archive names > (don't get me wrong: Axel has not suggested that I change the naming > convention; it was my own idea). If youse'all jes used Windows that dang problem wud take care of itself. -- David Kastrup, Kriemhildstr. 15, 44793 Bochum