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 From: Sam Steingold Subject: Re: UNC paths in TeX Date: Mon, 05 Jan 2004 17:46:19 -0500 Organization: disorganization Lines: 55 Message-ID: References: Reply-To: sds@gnu.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org X-Attribution: Sam X-Disclaimer: You should not expect anyone to agree with me. User-Agent: Gnus/5.1003 (Gnus v5.10.3) Emacs/21.3.50 (windows-nt) > * Igor Pechtchanski [2004-01-05 16:28:16 -0500]: > > On Mon, 5 Jan 2004, Sam Steingold wrote: > >> It appears that TeX does not support UNC paths while ls does. > Which TeX? tetex-2.0.2-13. >> This is strange (I expected that to be handled transparently by the dll) > > Some applications "optimize" two leading slashes into one slash. This > happens before the Cygwin DLL has a chance to see the path. Issuing > "mount '\\host\path' /host/path" before the first command below should > verify whether this guess is correct. $ mount //host/path/path1/path2 /host/path/path1/path2 mount: warning - /host/path/path1/path2 does not exist. mount: defaulting to '--no-executable' flag for speed since native path references a remote share. Use '-f' option to override. mount: /host/path/path1/path2: Permission denied >> $ TEXINPUTS=//host/path:.: pdflatex gdm.tex >> .... >> ! LaTeX Error: File `oubraces.sty' not found. >> ... >> $ TEXINPUTS=/cygdrive/x/path:.: pdflatex gdm.tex >> fine >> $ ls //host/path >> total 4 >> 4 oubraces.sty >> $ >> >> is this a known bug? > > Look in the TeTeX sources (I assume you're running tetex). I suspect > this may be a feature that'll need to be disabled in the Cygwin > version of TeTeX. is it really a good idea to do on any platform? >> can I hope for a fix? > > Perhaps Jan (the tetex maintainer) has enough familiarity with the > code to be able to tell offhand how large of an effort this is. Jan, would you please look at this? Thanks! -- Sam Steingold (http://www.podval.org/~sds) running w2k Lisp: it's here to save your butt. -- 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/