kpathsea problem

[Hans Hagen]

Fabrice Popineau wrote:
 
> It turned out that under w9x, kpathsea fails to behave correctly when
> the whole system is at the root of some drive. More precisely,
> w9x does not recognize c://texmf/web2c (by example) as a directory,
> even using native win32 calls. This is a bit annoying because this means
> the TL4a cd won't run without adding TEXMFMAIN and TEXMFCNF
> variables.

A few days ago I encountered some problems with kpsewhich which sounds
similar. Can it be that on a novell network the search fails? 

Hans

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