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Sanjoy Mahajan wrote:
Actually, on my system (Ubuntu, a Debian derivative), changing the texmf.cnf file directly is not a good idea. Instead one should change the same line in /etc/texmf/texmf.d/95NonPath.cnf and then run 'update-texmf' as root to generate the texmf.cnf file.
incredible (probably a copy of texmf.cnf in your local tree also works ok; in that case: clean up the file a bit and things run faster too)
Warning: If you've enabled 'shell_escape', then don't run *TeX on untrusted files, in case they do anything malicious like 'rm -fr /'.
well, opening files and overwriting them can be done anyway Hans ----------------------------------------------------------------- Hans Hagen | PRAGMA ADE Ridderstraat 27 | 8061 GH Hasselt | The Netherlands tel: 038 477 53 69 | fax: 038 477 53 74 | www.pragma-ade.com | www.pragma-pod.nl -----------------------------------------------------------------