Re: dvips default behaviour

Reiner Steib <[email protected]> Thu, 12 Jan 2006 18:12:05 +0100

Newsgroups	gmane.comp.tex.tetex.general
Organization	Dept. of Theoretical Physics, University of Ulm
Message-ID	<[email protected]>

On Wed, Jan 11 2006, Reinhard Kotucha wrote:

>>>>>> "Reiner" == Reiner Steib <[email protected]> writes:
>
>   > This kind of alias is as bad as alias rm="rm -i".
>
> It's not so bad to set alias rm="rm -i" (can be removed easily),

It is bad.  The alias might be not present in some situations leading
to data loss.
See e.g. <news:[email protected]>
or <news:[email protected]> (in German).

> some people put a file "-i" into each directory...

$ ls
foo  bar  -i
$ rm ./*
$ ls
$ 

;-)

> The preferred way to change variables is to use texconfig.

WRT dvips output, I don't think it make a difference compared to
editing the config file directly.

Bye, Reiner.
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