[tex-live] texindy problems on Win7 (UNC paths?)

Zdenek Wagner zdenek.wagner at gmail.com
Wed Apr 17 10:50:21 CEST 2013


2013/4/17 Lars Madsen <daleif at imf.au.dk>:
> It might be a bit too late to report this problem, but then at least it is added to the archives.
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> In the fall many of our researchers got new Win7 computers which are domain controlled. Among other things this means that their Documents folder is transparently mapped onto a network folder (UNC folder) on a file server.
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> For now we have observed two problems, one of which seems to be TL related.
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> texindy does not work in a subfolder of the Documents folder. If we move the files to a folder outside the Documents folder, i.e., somewhere that is not mapped onto a UNC path, texindy works as expected. Since the domain controlled file mapping is rather common in large organizations this problem ought to be addressed somehow.
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> I'm attaching a screen dump of the error we get when we try to use texindy. I cannot figure out if the problem is UNC paths or something else, but I suspect the folder mapping.
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TeXindy is a perl wrapper over a CLISP code so I am afraid it cannot
work with UNC paths due to limitation of CMD.
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> The other problem we are having does not seem to be a TL problem, but rather that when adding a user command to TeXStudio (in this case makeglossaries), then the command is called as
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> folder CMD command ....
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> But the folder TeXStudio gives it is a UNC path and not the local path, and CMD does not support UNC paths....
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> I'll send this to the TeXStudio developers, just wanted to share it in case others had problems.
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> /Lars Madsen
> Institut for Matematik / Department of Mathematics
> Aarhus Universitet / Aarhus University
> Mere info: http://au.dk/daleif@imf / More information: http://au.dk/en/daleif@imf
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