Re: Use of TEXMFOUTPUT on Windows

Ulrike Fischer <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.tex.miktex
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Am Fri, 10 May 2013 09:44:32 +0100 schrieb Stephen Brooking:

> Hi,
> 
> I'm trying to use TEXMFOUTPUT to enable me to write this sort of thing in
> my LaTeX document, and it not complain about not being able to write the
> file:
> 
>   \begin{document}
> 
>   \section{A section}
>   Some text in a section
> 
>   \newwrite\tempfile
>   \immediate\openout\tempfile=C:/docs/test.tex

Don't use such absolute pathes. This is a security risk. Write the
files in some subfolder of your main document. 

-- 
Ulrike Fischer 
http://www.troubleshooting-tex.de/


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