Several TEXMF:s

Jonas Bofjall job@abc.se
Tue, 17 Nov 1998 11:23:58 +0100 (MET)


> If your TEXMF variable mentions several directories, you need to set
> TEXMFMAIN to one (and only one) of them, the one which includes the web2c

This was my error. Thanks a lot to the two of you who helped, I was way
fooled to think the problem was elsewhere.

> I don't understand why do you call it ``caching''.

A small batch file which copies the most commonly needed files when
running latex to a fast local directory from the slow server. Then tex is
set up so it prefers loading files from the fast disk rather than from the
slow, if it exists.

  // Jonas <job@abc.se> [2:201/262.37]