Override file location

[Siep Kroonenberg <siepo@cybercomm.nl>]

James Thompson writes:
 > 
 > Is there a way to override where the system uses for the texmf.cnf file.
 > 
 > I'm wanting to blend fpTeX & teTeX into a single directory structure that
 > will support solaris, linux, and win32.  I found mention of a TEXMFCNF
 > environment variable but it seems to specify the web2c directory not the
 > file itself.  Since the texmf.cf for fpTeX wants drive letters and the
 > unix version doesn't I assume they can't be one and the same file so I'd
 > like to have texmf.cnf be the unix copy and texmf_w32.cnf be the windows
 > copy in the same share/texmf/web2c/ directory.
 > 
 > Thanks,
 > James
 > 
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I'm using environment variables for TEXMFCNF, TEXMFMAIN etc. I can set
these per operating system and share texmf.cnf between operating
systems.

Siep Kroonenberg