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From: ken@cs.rochester.edu (Ken Yap)
Newsgroups: comp.text
Subject: Re: Is there a search path for \input?
Message-ID: <1989Oct30.171928.120@cs.rochester.edu>
Date: 30 Oct 89 17:19:28 GMT
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|When I say \input{filename}, it seems the pathname must either be a full
|pathname or must be in the current directory. I want a search path, like the
|Unix environment variable PATH. This will be a list of directories to be
|searched in order to find the file I specify. I don't believe that such a thing
|doesn't exist, because not having it is *extremely* inconvenient. Please tell my
|I'm wrong - it does exist.

For Unix TeX it is TEXINPUTS. For other TeXs usually something similar
exists, read your local manual.