LaTeX Help

[Frank Ganz]

>-----Original Message-----
>From: Robin Fairbairns [mailto:Robin.Fairbairns at cl.cam.ac.uk]
>Sent: Friday, January 09, 2004 8:24 AM
>To: Techsupport at yandy.com
>Subject: Re: LaTeX Help
>
>
>> I am Saravanan,M. from India, one of the TeX user. I
>> used "Y&Y" for the past 9 years.
>>
>> I want to change the path for ".cls" file. Usually
>> we'll give "\documentclass{book}" and then Y&Y will
>> take the .cls file in our hard disk. Instead of this I
>> want to give the path "\documentclass{c:/mydir/book}"
>> for to protect my ".cls" file.
>>
>> Is this possible? please advice.
>
>this is the third time, at least, that i've seen this question.  don't
>you believe in the advice you get on comp.text.tex and texhax?
>
>have you actually *tried* to do what you mention?
>
>did you get any other error than "class name clash"?  (i wouldn't
>expect you to.)
>
>were you aware that changing a file in the latex distribution without
>also changing its name contravenes the licence under which latex is
>distributed? -- in which case why are you not just using the copy in
>the distribution you already have?
>

I assume Saravanan hasn't subscribed to the list and doesn't receive our messages. I will forward him the messages I've received about it. --Frank