Date:	Thu, 5 Aug 1999 10:11:17 +0300 (IDT)
From:	Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>
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To:	Jeff Williams <jeffw AT darwin DOT sfbr DOT org>
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Subject:	Re: TeX on ZIP
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On Wed, 4 Aug 1999, Jeff Williams wrote:

> Due to severe space limitations on my hard drive I am considering
> installing the djgpp port of TeX on a ZIP 100 drive (assigned to drive
> E:) and running TeX from there (the documents to be TeX'ed will remain
> on the C: drive).  Does anyone foresee problems with this approach?

You need to make sure the environment variable VARTEXFONTS is set so
that the fonts generated when TeX-related programs run will be written
to drive C:.  Usually, the generated fonts go into the same tree where
the programs find the font sources (these font sources are installed
in %DJDIR%/share/texmf by default).

The default setup should make this work automatically, since the
config file %DJDIR%/share/texmf/web2c/texmf.cnf sets VARTEXFONTS to
%DJDIR%/var/fonts, which points to the drive C:, but if you have
problems, set VARTEXFONTS manually (and read the Kpathsea docs about
the way it determines where the generated fonts go).

The above assumes that you have the latest ports, based on Web2c 7.2
(thye ports were released in November 1998).  If you use the older
version, the setup is messier and won't work by default, AFAIK.
IIRC, you will have to set TEXMFLS_R to the writable directory on
drive C: and change TEXMF, TEXMFMAIN, TEXMFDBS and TEXMCNF.

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