Re: Use of TEXMFOUTPUT on Windows

Ulrike Fischer <list <at> nililand.de> writes:

> 
> 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. 
> 

The trouble I have with that is that I'm using LyX, and it wants to put all
the output files in a temporary directory.  So writing to files/test.tex,
for example, will write the file to a directory within the temporary
hierarchy, rather than a subfolder of the main document.  Maybe this
therefore comes to be a question for LyX.

However, if I have control over TEXMFOUTPUT, why is this still a security risk?

Also, any idea why TEXMFOUTPUT doesn't seem to be having the effect that I
would expect?

Thanks and regards,
Steve




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