[tex-live] TeXLive 7 with cygwin

[Sebastian Rahtz]

> >From the cygwin shell, I can "kpsewhich texmf.cnf" and I get
> the right config file. However, I can't kpsewhich any of the
> usual format files, and indeed running TeX etc fails because
> the format file can't be found. 

try setting KPATHSEA_DEBUG=-1 and reading the voluminous output
to track what it is up to.

but the best answer is to throw away that Windows XP and use a real
operating system :-}

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