[tex-live] Kpathsea in TL2007

Akira Kakuto kakuto at fsci.fuk.kindai.ac.jp
Sat Feb 17 07:44:39 CET 2007


Hi,

I forgot to write about a small difference between
Windows and other systems concerning the order of
file search.

[1] Windows
    (a) \input foo
        try foo.tex first, if not found then try foo
    (b) \input foo.tex
        try foo.tex
    (c) \input foo.bar
        try foo.bar first, if not found then try foo.bar.tex

[2] Other systems
    (a) \input foo
        try foo.tex first, if not found then try foo
    (b) \input foo.tex
        try foo.tex
    (c) \input foo.bar
        try foo.bar.tex first, if not found then try foo.bar

The behavior in the case (c) is different. Please remind this
if something seemed strange.

BTW, allow_multiple_suffixes, which is written in both
texmf.cnf and texmf.cnf-4WIN, does not give any effect
in all systems.

Thanks,
Akira


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