Hello! On one of my machines, /tmp has its own partition (apparently), about 2G. Today dvips, in its quest to satisfy latex-preview, filled /tmp completely, but without reporting any error. I discovered it only because another program complained.
This raises two questions: 1) Is it odd that dvips should generate 2G worth of data? The file itself isn't anywhere near that large. 2) Is there some what to get dvips to build these files somewhere else? Digging through the code, I find that mkstemp creates the directory, using a Python library dedicated to temporary files. I know a little Python, but not enough to know whether I can change a Python setting to create temp files somewhere else. thank you! john perry
