cameron@cs.flinders.oz.au (Cameron Humphries) (10/23/90)
Hi. ez appears intent on leaving files down in /tmp. These files have names of the form <filename>.n This would be ok except that the permissions are open for everyone to read the file. So it is not feasible to use ez for confidential correspondence. Asking users to set their umask is one possibility. Any suggestions? -Cameron Cameron Humphries Discipline of Computer Science email: cameron@cs.flinders.oz.au School of Information Science and Technology phone: +61 +8 201 2874 The Flinders University of South Australia fax : +61 +8 201 2904
nsb@THUMPER.BELLCORE.COM (Nathaniel Borenstein) (10/23/90)
The .n files in /tmp are not standard. Sounds to me like you've got printing slightly misconfigured, as the .n files are temporary nroff files produced during the printing process. -- Nathaniel
wdc@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Bill Cattey) (10/24/90)
To be a little more detailed:
Look at your formatcommand and printcommand. Section 4 of README tells
about setting these, as does the 'preferences' help file.
The preferences I use are:
*.formatcommand: cat /tmp/%s.n | eqn | /usr/bin/troff -Tpsc -t |
*.printcommand: psdit | /usr/ucb/lpr; rm -f /tmp/%s.n
As you can see, formatting creates a .n file in /tmp, while printing
removes it.
If the README file is bit for bit exactly correct (which it often is)
then the default print command is at fault, not you. The default print
command doesn't have the '; rm -f /tmp/%s.n' in it to remove the
temporary file.
Probably the simplest way to fix this is for you to create a file named
global.prf in your ${ANDREWDIR}/lib directory.
In that file put the line:
*.printcommand: psdit | /usr/ucb/lpr; rm -f /tmp/%s.n
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I hope this helps.
-wdctpn+@ANDREW.CMU.EDU (Tom Neuendorffer) (10/31/90)
Excerpts from mail: 23-Oct-90 Re: ez fails to tidy up Bill Cattey@ATHENA.MIT.E (851) > If the README file is bit for bit exactly correct (which it often is) > then the default print command is at fault, not you. The default print > command doesn't have the '; rm -f /tmp/%s.n' in it to remove the > temporary file. By default, the print command will remove the .n files. Note the following from the print.c source file. #define print_PRINTCOMMAND "/usr/ucb/lpr -n -Ppp; rm -f /tmp/%s.n; rm -f /tmp/%s.n.dvi " /* if overridden by the profile 'printcommand' entry, the troff file (usually /tmp/%s.n) won't be automatically deleted . */ So my guess is that you have either a local or global preference or init file that is improperly overriding the default in the source without including the rm -f /tmp/%s.n command. Tom N.