[tex-live] Building the "TeX in Practice" format and saving it in a sensible location

[Norbert Preining]

On Mon, 03 Dec 2018, Philip Taylor wrote:
> I really need to get rid of TEXMFVAR; the last thing I want TeX doing is writing things under c:/users/philip taylor.fujitsu-pc/.texlive2018 ...

put a file texmf.cnf into your TL root, and add there
	TEXMFVAR = /wherever/you/want/it
and at the same time do this also for
	TEXMFCONFIG = ...

> Hmmm, "man" :  no such command under Windows !

texmf-dist/doc/man/man1/fmtutil.man1.pdf


Best

Norbert

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