[fptex] Adding $HOMETEXMF to TEXMF slows down compilation

[Joes Staal]

At 23:17 8/29/2003 +0200, Joes Staal wrote:
>At 21:07 8/29/2003 +0200, Fabrice Popineau wrote:
>
>>> If I follow your instructions, my own files are not found:
>>
>>Did you follow up the TDS ? If you have latex files, they should be put
>>under $HOMETEX/tex/latex/...
>>
>>Fabrice
>
>I have got HOME set to E:\Joes.

OK, I found that if I set

HOMETEXMF=E:/Joes/texmf

instead of

HOMETEXMF=$HOME/texmf

the ls-R file is read. Also setting HOME to E:/Joes solves
the problem.

Could it be a problem with the slashes
(backward in HOME and forward in HOMETEXMF)?

Regards,

Joes.