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From: tlaronde@polynum.com
To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@9fans.net>
Subject: Re: [9fans] dvips(1): RFC
Date: Fri, 20 Aug 2010 18:03:51 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20100820160351.GA4403@polynum.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <dde5b2bd765a4ecdc2e1e43c2dfdb982@hamnavoe.com>

On Fri, Aug 20, 2010 at 04:42:22PM +0100, Richard Miller wrote:
> > I want dvips(1) to only have
> > one configuration file, called: "dvips.cnf" (and not "config.ps"
> > since it's not Postscript instructions)
>
> The default config file name may be silly but that's where people
> who are used to dvips on another o/s will expect to find it.
>

If it is clearly documented, I don't think this is a problem. And since
I remove too, in the config file, the 'E' command allowing arbitrary
execution of commands via system(3), at least it will be clear that
something changed.
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        Thierry Laronde <tlaronde +AT+ polynum +dot+ com>
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  reply	other threads:[~2010-08-20 16:03 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-08-20 11:02 tlaronde
2010-08-20 14:50 ` Richard Miller
2010-08-20 16:00   ` tlaronde
2010-08-20 15:42 ` Richard Miller
2010-08-20 16:03   ` tlaronde [this message]
2010-08-20 17:38     ` ron minnich
2010-08-20 21:13       ` tlaronde

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