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Subject:	Re: UNC paths in TeX
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From:	Sam Steingold <sds AT gnu DOT org>
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Date:	Mon, 05 Jan 2004 17:46:19 -0500
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In-Reply-To:	<Pine.GSO.4.56.0401051618250.1695@slinky.cs.nyu.edu> (Igor Pechtchanski's message of "Mon, 5 Jan 2004 16:28:16 -0500 (EST)")
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The following message is a courtesy copy of an article
that has been posted to gmane.os.cygwin as well.

> * Igor Pechtchanski <crpugpun AT pf DOT alh DOT rqh> [2004-01-05 16:28:16 -0500]:
>
> On Mon, 5 Jan 2004, Sam Steingold wrote:
>
>> It appears that TeX does not support UNC paths while ls does.
> Which TeX?

tetex-2.0.2-13.

>> This is strange (I expected that to be handled transparently by the dll)
>
> Some applications "optimize" two leading slashes into one slash.  This
> happens before the Cygwin DLL has a chance to see the path.  Issuing
> "mount '\\host\path' /host/path" before the first command below should
> verify whether this guess is correct.

$ mount //host/path/path1/path2 /host/path/path1/path2
mount: warning - /host/path/path1/path2 does not exist.
mount: defaulting to '--no-executable' flag for speed since native path
       references a remote share.  Use '-f' option to override.
mount: /host/path/path1/path2: Permission denied

>> $ TEXINPUTS=//host/path:.: pdflatex gdm.tex
>> ....
>> ! LaTeX Error: File `oubraces.sty' not found.
>> ...
>> $ TEXINPUTS=/cygdrive/x/path:.: pdflatex gdm.tex
>> fine
>> $ ls //host/path
>> total 4
>>    4 oubraces.sty
>> $
>>
>> is this a known bug?
>
> Look in the TeTeX sources (I assume you're running tetex).  I suspect
> this may be a feature that'll need to be disabled in the Cygwin
> version of TeTeX.

is it really a good idea to do on any platform?

>> can I hope for a fix?
>
> Perhaps Jan (the tetex maintainer) has enough familiarity with the
> code to be able to tell offhand how large of an effort this is.

Jan, would you please look at this?
Thanks!


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