2.99.3 beta and texdoc on macosx

Sven de Vries <[email protected]> Tue, 23 Nov 2004 22:02:22 +0100 (MET)
Newsgroups gmane.comp.tex.tetex.beta
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Hi there,

unfortunately, seems like texdoc nolonger works on my mac:

 devries% texdoc paralist
2004-11-23 21:56:46.417 open[9274] LSOpenFromURLSpec() returned -10814 for
application (null) path
/Users/devries/local/packages/teTeX-2.99.3.20041109-beta/share/texmf-dist/doc/latex/paralist/paralist.dvi.
2004-11-23 21:56:46.417 open[9274] Couldn't open file:
/Users/devries/local/packages/teTeX-2.99.3.20041109-beta/share/texmf-dist/doc/latex/paralist/paralist.dvi
[noname:~] devries% texdoc -l paralist
/Users/devries/local/packages/teTeX-2.99.3.20041109-beta/share/texmf-dist/doc/latex/paralist/paralist.dvi
/Users/devries/local/packages/teTeX-2.99.3.20041109-beta/share/texmf-dist/doc/help/Catalogue/entries/paralist.html
[noname:~] devries% xdvi
/Users/devries/local/packages/teTeX-2.99.3.20041109-beta/share/texmf-dist/doc/latex/paralist/paralist.dvi

strangely, texdoc complains it can't open the dvi-file, although it can be
opend with xdvi and does exists:

-rw-r--r--    1 devries  staff       23716 Mar 31  2002
/Users/devries/local/packages/teTeX-2.99.3.20041109-beta/share/texmf-dist/doc/latex/paralist/paralist.dvi

same true for other packages too.

sven