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- From: peterw@archsci.arch.su.oz.au (Peter Williams )
- Subject: Re: TeX/xdvi Question.
- Message-ID: <1992Nov9.000306.15310@ucc.su.OZ.AU>
- Keywords: tex xdvi
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- Organization: Design Computing Unit, The University of Sydney
- References: <1992Nov5.175550.2515@kth.se>
- Date: Mon, 9 Nov 1992 00:03:06 GMT
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- In article <1992Nov5.175550.2515@kth.se>, d88-jwn@zorin.nada.kth.se (Johan Whlin) writes:
- |> In article <1992Nov5.145820.24923@cs.wisc.edu> djansa@mersem.cs.wisc.edu (Dean Jansa) writes:
- |> >A quick question to a TeX/xdvi guru:
- |> >
- |> >When I run xdvi on a test.dvi file, I get the following output.
- |> >...
- |> >mv: cannot move `cmmi10.300pk' to `/usr/TeX/lib/tex/fonts/pktmp.94': Permission denied
- |> >...
- |>
- |> I have chmod .../tex/fonts and .../mf/macros to 1777 so as to protect the
- |> original files (due to the sticky bit) and let anyone write in it.
- |>
- |> I do not like this way of doing things, but it does work.
- |> --
- |> /Johan W}hlin (.. where the } really is an a with a ring above it.. 8))
-
- In the dvips documentation it is recommended that the pk fonts generated by
- "MakeTeXPK" NOT be placed directly into the normal pk directory as this involves
- making that directory publicly writeable. Instead they should be placed in
- a special (publicly writeable) directory and the sysadmin can transfer those
- deemed to be worth keeping into the normal directory from time to time.
-
- That is how the archsci distribution is set up, with /usr/local/lib/tex/fonts/pk
- (with permissions set as drwxr-xr-x) as the normal directory for pk fonts and
- /usr/local/lib/tex/fonts/local/pk (with permissions set as drwxrwxrwx) as the
- "temporary" repositry for files generated by "MakeTeXPK".
-
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