Path: utzoo!censor!geac!torsqnt!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!bonnie.concordia.ca!uunet!mcsun!ukc!axion!uzi-9mm.fulcrum.bt.co.uk!beta.its.bt.co.uk!jvt From: jvt@its.bt.co.uk (John Trickey) Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st Subject: Re: Prob with TeX 3.1/Metafont 2.7 for ATARI ST Message-ID: <*J4^P`#@uzi-9mm.fulcrum.bt.co.uk> Date: 18 Jan 91 11:29:26 GMT References: <18926@shlump.nac.dec.com> <1991Jan16.031701.3487@doe.utoronto.ca> Sender: isode@fulcrum.bt.co.uk (Isode Hackers) Organization: BT Applied Systems, Birmingham, UK Lines: 23 In article <1991Jan16.031701.3487@doe.utoronto.ca> david@doe.utoronto.ca (David Megginson) writes: > >Actually, it doesn't matter _what_ shell you are using, you should use >the form with the forward slashes and colon as separator. That is because >it is not the shell, but TeX which will interpret the contents of the >variable, and the new TeX binaries want the paths in UNIXMODE format, >and with colons as separators. Therefore > > setenv TEXINPUTS ".:/dev/D/tex" > >would be correct under any shell (which uses setenv). > >Hope this isn't too confusing... Thats *wonderful* news :-( So how do you cope with your source on one partition and your system on another without cd'ing to the system partition? John -- John Trickey || ..!mcsun!ukc!axion!its G4REV @ GB7SUT Voice: +44 21 333 3369 #include