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From: koren@hpfelg.HP.COM (Steve Koren)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Problems with TeX on Amiga
Message-ID: <13910040@hpfelg.HP.COM>
Date: 23 Aug 90 13:21:03 GMT
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Organization: HP Elec. Design Div. -FtCollins
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>   - TeX 3.0 which i have ftp-ed recently from xanth uses also variables
>     for finding inputs. But it uses the setenv-command. Under
>     the CLI it works fine, but after invoking SKsh it doesn't
>     work any more. Also getenv doesn't work anymore. So i suppose
>     that TeX cannot access the variables, and doesn't find his
>     inputs. Is there a solution to this problem ?

[several other problems with TeX variables/SKsh deleted ]

There are several different standards for environment variables under
AmigaDos.  SKsh uses the standard AmigaDos solution, which is to store
variable contents under an ENV: directory in a file named the sama as
the variable name.  It could very well be that TeX (the amiga version 
with with I am unfamiliar) uses another method, such as the Manx/ARP
method.  If I understand your problem correctly, that would explain it.

I thought it was better to use the standard AmigaDos solution in SKsh.
"export -e var" will set an AmigaDos env variable from in SKsh.

   - steve