Re: [[email protected]: 2.99.3 beta and texdoc on macosx]

On Nov 24, 2004, at 06:25, Thomas Esser wrote:

> Gerben,
>
> I guess this is due to your suggested changes... Is there anything that
> needs to be done to make it work via open?

If you can double click a DVI file in the Finder and it opens, it  
works. It looks like there is no association yet between .dvi and an  
application. Select a .dvi file in the finder, then choose the Get info  
menu item and set the default application.

Gerben


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> Thomas
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> 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
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