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From: mg@dewey.soe.berkeley.edu (Mike Gigante)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sgi
Subject: Re: TeX distribution for the SGI
Summary: In case you don't have heaps of space on /usr...
Keywords: couple of extra points
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Date: 25 Jul 89 17:29:15 GMT
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Of course, you can always make a symbolic link to some otherplace e.g.

	(as root)
	# mkdir /d/tex
	 (assuming /usr/local exists and /usr/local/tex doesn't)
	# ln -s /d/tex /usr/local/tex
	# zcat texbin.tar.Z | tar xvf -

If you don't want to extract to the absolute pathnames, you can always do

	# zcat texbin.tar.Z | tar xvRf -

One final thing is that I built TeX and friends assuming the absolute
pathnames as distributed in texbin.tar.Z, if you want to move it elsewhere
you can do so but will need to set a number of environment variables

TEXINPUTS [/usr/local/tex/inputs]
TEXFORMATS [/usr/local/tex/formats] & [/usr/local/tex/bigformats]
TEXFONTS [/usr/local/tex/fonts/tfm] (for TeX) (it is different for TeXsgi)

There may be more that I have forgotten...

Anyhow,good luck!

Mike Gigante