Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@cygwin.com To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: UNC paths in TeX References: From: Jan Nieuwenhuizen Organization: Jan at Appel Date: Mon, 05 Jan 2004 23:16:26 +0100 In-Reply-To: (Igor Pechtchanski's message of "Mon, 5 Jan 2004 16:28:16 -0500 (EST)") Message-ID: User-Agent: Gnus/5.1003 (Gnus v5.10.3) Emacs/21.3 (gnu/linux) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-RBL-Warning: (inputs.orbz.org) X-RBL-Warning: (outputs.orbz.org) X-IsSubscribed: yes Igor Pechtchanski writes: >> It appears that TeX does not support UNC paths while ls does. >> This is strange (I expected that to be handled transparently by the dll) This was disabled by default, as it clashes with the usage of '//' by kpathsea, and you can easily work around it, as you show. You can tell teTeX to look for hosts on the network whenever it finds '//' by setting the environment variable KPSE_SEARCH_UNC. See also: http://www.cygwin.com/ml/cygwin-announce/2002-08/msg00007.html Jan. -- Jan Nieuwenhuizen | GNU LilyPond - The music typesetter http://www.xs4all.nl/~jantien | http://www.lilypond.org -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/