Subject: RE: hidden share - latex error - Unrecognized variable construct `$'
From: [email-masked] (Eric Blake)
To: Stephan Mueller <[email-masked]>, Poor Yorick <[email-masked]>, [email-masked]
Date: Fri, 18 Nov 2005 01:26:27 +0000

http://cygwin.com/acronyms/#TOFU - reformatted

> > 
> > My pwd is drive mapped to a windows share where the last character is a 
> > "$" (dollar sign).  Latex reports lines of identical warnings:
> > 
> > warning: //<host>/<share>$: Unrecognized variable construct `$'

If anything, it is a LaTex bug, report it there.

> 
> If you're looking for a workaround, I'd say easiest (and probably
> obvious) is to net use a share name that doesn't end in $.  Ask the
> owner of the sharing machine to provide one.

Or, use mount to create a mount point to the share so that
latex does not have to see the trailing $.  Symlinks would
also do the trick, but they are not as efficient as mount points.

--
Eric Blake

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