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Subject: Re: UNC paths in TeX
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From: Jan Nieuwenhuizen <janneke AT gnu DOT org>
Organization: Jan at Appel
Date: Mon, 05 Jan 2004 23:16:26 +0100
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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Igor Pechtchanski writes:

>> 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)

This was disabled by default, as it clashes with the usage of '//' by
kpathsea, and you can easily work around it, as you show.

You can tell teTeX to look for hosts on the network whenever it finds
'//' by setting the environment variable KPSE_SEARCH_UNC.

See also:

    http://www.cygwin.com/ml/cygwin-announce/2002-08/msg00007.html

Jan.

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