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Date: Mon, 5 Jan 2004 16:26:47 -0500
From: Christopher Faylor <cgf-no-personal-reply-please AT cygwin DOT com>
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Subject: Re: UNC paths in TeX
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On Mon, Jan 05, 2004 at 04:10:02PM -0500, Sam Steingold wrote:
>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)
>
>$ 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?
>can I hope for a fix?

Many UNIX utilities assume that repeated slashes can be compressed into
one slash.  There is nothing that cygwin can do about that.

You could always use a UNIX-like solution and mount the UNC path:

mount //foo/bar /bar

and refer to /bar from then on.

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