Date: Thu, 5 Aug 1999 10:11:17 +0300 (IDT) From: Eli Zaretskii X-Sender: eliz AT is To: Jeff Williams cc: djgpp AT delorie DOT com Subject: Re: TeX on ZIP In-Reply-To: <199908041437.JAA12951@darwin.sfbr.org> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Reply-To: djgpp AT delorie DOT com X-Mailing-List: djgpp AT delorie DOT com X-Unsubscribes-To: listserv AT delorie DOT com Precedence: bulk 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.