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From: gaertner@tertius.in-berlin.de
Newsgroups: comp.text.tex
Subject: Re: DVIPS/VMS not finding PostScript files
Message-ID: <1991Jun13.115230.6576@tertius.in-berlin.de>
Date: 13 Jun 91 11:52:30 GMT
References: <1991Jun11.211730.13801@neon.Stanford.EDU> <1991Jun12.053158.6188@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu>
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In article <1991Jun12.053158.6188@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu>, mako@uihepa.hep.uiuc.edu ("Makoto Shimojima, Univ of Tsukuba/CDF") writes:
>> ... TeX automatically searches the current directory before tex$inputs.
> 
> How about prepending "SYS$DISK:[]" in tex$inputs?
> For example:
>   $ DEFINE TEX$INPUTS SYS$DISK:[],TEX$ROOT:[INPUTS],...
> 
>                                                mako
> --
> Makoto Shimojima
> 

At our site I modified TEX$INPUTS to

   $ DEFINE TEX$INPUTS [], TEX$ROOT:[INPUTS], ...

so that TeX, DVIPS are looking into the current directory of the user
(independent of the disk). This may also preferable if TeX or the user-
directories aren't located on SYS$DISK.

Ralf

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  Ralf Gaertner                   gaertner@venus.rz-berlin.mpg.de
  FHI Berlin