[OS X TeX] Where to put file like "longdiv.tex"?

[Alain Schremmer]

Alan Munn wrote:

> At 10:12 AM -0500 2/28/07, Alain Schremmer wrote:
>
>> Peter Dyballa wrote:
>>
>>>
>>> Am 28.02.2007 um 15:39 schrieb Alain Schremmer:
>>>
>>>> Any difference between "run[ning] texhash" (I assume from the 
>>>> terminal) and LaTeXing from TeXShop?
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> Yes: one or two.
>>
>>
>> Wait a minute! This was not context-free. The context implied that I 
>> was asking about the effect on
>>
>>    <http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/generic/misc/longdiv.tex>
>>
>> And the reason I asked is that I have been using longdiv.sty for now 
>> at lest one year and I am pretty certain that I didn't texhash or 
>> hash it in any way as I am not about to tinker with my installation 
>> since it would likely be a terminal tinkering.
>
>
> This depends on where you put stuff.  The original poster was putting 
> it in the system-wide texmf.local, in which case texhash needs to be 
> run.  If you put things in ~/Library/texmf  (as you probably do) then 
> you don't need to run texhash.

As I sure did!

But now I know /why/ I did it!

Grateful regards
--schremmer

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