Override file location

[James Thompson]

On 24 Mar 2000, Fabrice Popineau wrote:

> * Bob Howlett <bobh@maths.usyd.edu.au> writes:
> 
> > James Thompson wrote "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." This sounds to me like he wants to be able to change the
> > name of the file rather than its location. 


That was what I was asking but it was from lack of experience with the
$SELFAUTOPARENT style vars.  I don't use tex, only maintain it's install
so I'm still fairly clueless.  Fabrice's solution was perfect for my
needs.

> Since he wrote that the main reason was that he thought win32 wants
> drive letters and Unix can't stand them, I assumed that there was no
> other reason to maintain separate versions of texmf.cnf. But maybe
> James can clarify his specific setup ?

You were correct.  The only reason I wanted to texmf.cnf was the drive
letters.  Your info was what I needed and kpsewhich is quite happy now.  

However I still don't have a functional system yet.  The fpTeX commands
now complain about the .fmt files missing. Though kspewhich reports
T:\texmf/web2c in the search path and the files exist.  I'm 99% positive I
need to rebuild my ls-R but I haven't had time to mess with it at all
today.  Thats a job for next week.

Take Care & Thanks for all the help,
James

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