[fptex] Kpsewhich/kpathsea -- strange problem

[LUK ShunTim]

Hello,

I ran into a strange problem with kpathsea/kpsewhich.

Here's an excerpt of the ls-R file in the local texmf tree
<quote>
% ls-R -- filename database for kpathsea; do not change this line.
/dev/null

./:
ls-R

./doc:

./doc/latex:
fancybox.tex
footmisc.dvi

...

./tex/latex/prosper:
PPRalienglow.sty
PPRautumn.sty
PPRazure.sty
PPRblends.sty
PPRcontemporain.sty
PPRdarkblue.sty
PPRdefault.sty
PPRframes.sty
PPRlignesbleues.sty
PPRnuancegris.sty
PPRtroispoints.sty
prosper.cls

...
</quote>

Here's the output of running kpsewhich.

<quote>
F:\00work\00MyTex\presentation\prosper\00work>kpsewhich prosper.cls
e:/TeXLive/texmf-local/tex/latex/prosper/prosper.cls

F:\00work\00MyTex\presentation\prosper\00work>kpsewhich PPRautumn.sty
[Nothing found!]

F:\00work\00MyTex\presentation\prosper\00work>kpsewhich -v
kpathsea version 3.4.1
Copyright (C) 1997 - 2002 K. Berry & O. Weber.
There is NO warranty.  You may redistribute this software
under the terms of the GNU General Public License.
For more information about these matters, see the files named COPYING.
</quote>

I've experimented a bit and it appears that it cannot find files without 
extensions such as "README", "ChangeLog" and files with names that has 
consecutive caps such as "eq_DLJS.pdf", "PPRautumn.sty" though all are 
listed in the "ls-R" index.

Cheers,
ST
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