[texpoint-users] a weird error message

[Andreas Glatz]

The problem is that Office programs are pure Carbon applications and do
not know much about the BDS kernel, therefore uses the "old" mac style
for paths, e.g. "Macintosh HD:Users:you:Documents:". Since TexPoint uses
external *nix programs, I need to translate them to posix paths by
replacing all ":" by "/" and adding "/Volumes/" in front of it. The
latter I need to support different volumes (all mounted volumes have a
link in this directory).
After this introduction, two remarks:
1. this method seems to fail for FileVault (since the mac path starts
with the username)
2. All directories which users can specify in TexPoint have to be "mac"
style, therefore something like "/tmp/texpoint" will not work (unless
you have a mounted volume called tmp)

Right now I do not know how to resolve issue 1. in an acceptable way
(for me it looks more like a bug in FileVault, since I see no reason why
the "Macintosh HD:Users:" in front of this path is missing)...

Andreas.



On 2006-10-25 17:49, Eric Phipps wrote:
> I just wanted to mention that I just recently came across the same error
> with TexPoint (latest version, 2.12) and Office 2004 on the Mac.  I suspect
> the problem is FileVault related because I too use FileVault (mandated by
> the company I work for).  I tried setting the TexPoint working directory in
> the Configuration dialog to be something not in my home directory (e.g.,
> /tmp/texpoint) that I have write access to, but that didn't work.  However
> what did work was making a sym-link from /Volumes/etphipp to /Users/etphipp.
>
> As far as I am aware, home directories are always in /Users on OS X.  So why
> do you prepend /Volumes to the directory?
>
> -Eric
>
>   
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: users-bounces at lists.texpoint.necula.org
>> [mailto:users-bounces at lists.texpoint.necula.org] On Behalf Of
>> Lie-Quan Lee
>> Sent: Monday, March 27, 2006 9:27 PM
>> To: Andreas Glatz
>> Cc: users at lists.texpoint.necula.org
>> Subject: Re: [texpoint-users] a weird error message
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> On 3/27/06 9:20 PM, "Andreas Glatz" <glatz at anl.gov> wrote:
>>
>>     
>>> Lie-Quan Lee wrote:
>>>       
>>>> I guess that it the because the path returned from PP is
>>>>         
>> not usable 
>>     
>>>> in the AppleScript due to FileVault.
>>>>         
>>> I have to admit that I never used FileVault, but I thought it just
>>> encrypts the home folder, but you do not actually see a
>>>       
>> difference in 
>>     
>>> the Finder...
>>> (I use an encrypted dmg file, which seems to be much more
>>>       
>> flexible to me).
>>  
>> I strongly suspect it is FileVault because quite a few things
>> doe not work well any more after I started to use it. I
>> regret to use it but I cannot go back (no space to convert it back).
>>  
>>     
>>>> The full message of running that ptest is:
>>>> Path: llee:Desktop
>>>> Name: ptest.ppt
>>>> FullName: llee:Desktop:ptest.ppt
>>>> file found
>>>>         
>>> That is interesting. For VBA file operations the path seems
>>>       
>> to be ok, 
>>     
>>> but I have to "translate" it to a UNIX path for latex & Co.
>>>       
>> TexPoint 
>>     
>>> does this by replacing the colons by "/" and adding a
>>>       
>> "/Volumes/" in 
>>     
>>> front of it - maybe this is the reason that this translated
>>>       
>> path does 
>>     
>>> not work in your case.
>>> (does "cd /llee" work in a Terminal shell?)
>>>       
>> No, "cd /llee" does not work in terminal. You are right, that
>> translation does not work because there is no /Volumes/llee.
>>
>>     
>>> In the next version, one can define a temporary working
>>>       
>> directory for 
>>     
>>> external commands. That should solve the problem. My plan is to
>>> release it during the next two weeks.
>>>       
>> That is a good idea. Thanks and I am looking forward to your
>> next release.
>>
>> --Rich
>>
>>
>> _______________________________________________
>> users mailing list
>> users at lists.texpoint.necula.org
>> http://lists.texpoint.necula.org/listinfo.cgi/users-texpoint.n
>>     
> ecula.org
>   
>
>