<html><head></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><br><div><div>On 06.01.2010, at 17:53, Alessandro Andretta wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><div>Dear All, <br><br>could you explain what a sym link is? and, more importantly how to set it up? <br>I am using my iDisk to sync my documents between computers. <br>I tried to put an alias in ~/Library/texmf pointing to the files on the iDisk, but did not work.<br></div></blockquote><div><br></div>A symlink is something like an alias, but not quite the same. It also refers to a location on your hard drive, but comes from the Unix side. Symlinks are created in the shell, aliases in the Finder. The main difference between symlinks and aliases is that a symlink is completely transparent, meaning that the file system handles the symlink exactly like the place it refers to which is not the case with aliases.</div><div><br></div><div>To create an alias you have to go the Terminal and enter something like:</div><div><br></div><div>ln -s target link_name</div><div><br></div><div>So let's say you put your personal texmf tree on your iDisk, you had to do something like this:</div><div><br></div><div>Open the terminal</div><div>Go to ~/Library with 'cd ~/Library'</div><div>then create a symlink in ~/Library which refers to the texmf folder on your iDisk 'ln -s /Volumes/nameofyouriDisk/texmf'</div><div><br></div><div>After this, LaTeX will automatically use the texmf directory on your iDisk.</div><div><br></div><div>HTH</div><div><br></div><div>Simon</div><div>
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