Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!rutgers!gatech!purdue!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!cs.utexas.edu!uunet!mcsun!hp4nl!dutrun!duteca2!marcel From: marcel@duteca (Marcel Mol) Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.rt Subject: Re: TeX and NFS Message-ID: <595@duteca2.UUCP> Date: 18 Aug 89 21:49:47 GMT References: Distribution: comp Organization: Delft University of Technology, Netherlands Lines: 26 From article , by windley@cheetah.ucdavis.edu (Phil Windley/20000000): > > Has anyone noticed that IBM's TeX and Metafont don't seemed to get along > with NFS. I recently tried to put my metafont source files on a remotely > mounted directory and MF couldn't find them. I've also noticed that I > can't TeX a files that is remotely mounted. Does anyone know why? Is > there a PTF for this (he hopes ;-). It is really annoying. > The same problem occurs with distributed services. We reported the problem to IBM more than a year ago. I has something to do with 'mapped files'. We haven't heard anything about it since then. Some user up here managed to get source code for tex and compiled it. This tex does work on NFS. -Marcel -- ######################################### # Marcel J.E. Mol # They hate you if your're clever # Delft, University of Technology # And they despise the fool # The Netherlands # Till you're so fucking crazy # UUCP: marcel@duteca.tudelft.nl # You can't follow the rules. # duteca!marcel # ######################################### - Lennon