Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@cygwin.com Date: Mon, 5 Jan 2004 16:26:47 -0500 From: Christopher Faylor To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: UNC paths in TeX Message-ID: <20040105212647.GA18204@redhat.com> Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.1i X-IsSubscribed: yes Reply-To: cygwin@cygwin.com On Mon, Jan 05, 2004 at 04:10:02PM -0500, Sam Steingold wrote: >It appears that TeX does not support UNC paths while ls does. >This is strange (I expected that to be handled transparently by the dll) > >$ 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? >can I hope for a fix? Many UNIX utilities assume that repeated slashes can be compressed into one slash. There is nothing that cygwin can do about that. You could always use a UNIX-like solution and mount the UNC path: mount //foo/bar /bar and refer to /bar from then on. -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/