Re: can't compile pstricks files

Leon <sdl.web@xxxxxxxxx> writes:

Donald Arseneau <asnd@xxxxxxxxx> writes:

Leon <sdl.web@xxxxxxxxx> writes:

(./pstricks.tex
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
remove or rename the very unfortunately named file pstricks.tex in
your current directory...

Thanks David. I found out it is because I put the file in /dev/shm
that caused the problem. Could some explain such an error?

Huh? What file did you put in /dev/shm?

I think David's explanation is right.

I changed the filename to boxfill.tex but still got the same
error. However, when I move the file to hard disk (as compared to
/dev/shm), everything goes well.

/dev/shm is not a place for files. And I repeat:

Remove or rename the very unfortunately named file pstricks.tex in
your current directory. This file is not named boxfill.tex. It is
named pstricks.tex. What you seemingly did is _copy_ it to
boxfill.tex. That does not remove or rename it.

The problem is that there _still_ is a file pstricks.tex in your
current directory (which presumably is what you choose to call
/dev/shm for whatever unfathomable reason). The problem is not just
that the file you are running through TeX must not itself be called
pstricks.tex. The problem is that no file _whatsoever_ with the name
pstricks.tex must be remaining in the current directory.

When you moved boxfill.tex to "the harddisk" and compiled it there,
this worked not because "the harddisk" would be a better place for
boxfill.tex than "/dev/shm" (whatever that may be), but because "the
harddisk" had not a file named pstricks.tex sitting in it.

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