Wednesday, August 13, 2008

Why dvipdfm failed to create .pdf from .dvi in Solaris 10 x86?

It is about the version of zcat.

In my solaris 10 x86 system, the first zcat found was /usr/bin/zcat.
NAME
compress, uncompress, zcat - compress, uncompress files or
display expanded files

SYNOPSIS
compress [-fv] [-b bits] [file...]

compress [-cfv] [-b bits] [file]

uncompress [-cfv] [file...]

zcat [file...]



However, I think the dvipdfm program really wants GNU version of zcat. In Solaris, it is /usr/bin/gzcat.
NAME
gzip, gunzip, gzcat - compress or expand files

SYNOPSIS
gzip [ -acdfhlLnNrtvV19 ] [-S suffix] [ name ... ]
gunzip [ -acfhlLnNrtvV ] [-S suffix] [ name ... ]
gzcat [ -fhLV ] [ name ... ]


Thus, link gzcat to zcat and preceeds the /usr/bin/zcat will solves the problem.

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