[tex-k] secure mode of dvips should be default

[Paul Vojta]

> From: "Sebastian Rahtz" <sebastian.rahtz@computing-services.oxford.ac.uk>
> Date: Sat, 2 Jun 2001 18:41:20 +0100
> To: janl@linpro.no
> Cc: tetex-pretest@informatik.uni-hannover.de, tex-k@mail.tug.org
> Subject: Re: [tex-k] secure mode of dvips should be default 

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> has anyone tried the new "mdvi", by the way?

I haven't compiled it, but I looked over the README files.

One thing it does away with is the file $TEXMF/xdvi/XDvi, using (I presume)
entries in texmf.cnf instead.  Is there any reason xdvik doesn't do that?

--Paul Vojta, vojta@math.berkeley.edu