[fptex] Adding $HOMETEXMF to TEXMF slows down compilation

[Staszek Wawrykiewicz]

On Fri, 29 Aug 2003, Joes Staal wrote:

> I want to have my local files in the search path for tex,
> so I defined in texmf.cnf
> 
>   TEXMF = {!!$VARTEXMF,!!$TEXMFLOCAL,!!$TEXMFMAIN,$HOMETEXMF}
> 
> However, this slows down the texing of my documents considerably.
> Why is that? And how do I solve this?

I'd rather say
TEXMF = {$HOMETEXMF,...}
In Your example $HOMETEXMF is searched at a last resort.
As other guys suggested, please declare $HOMETEXMF as absolute path.
I do not believe all those 'default' $HOME in Windows ;-)
It is interpreted differently in various windows versions.

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Staszek Wawrykiewicz
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