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Ryan Johnson <ryan DOT johnson AT cs DOT utoronto DOT ca> was heard to say:

> AFAIK, it's a tex thing and has little or no relation to anything  
> linux or unix. Other than that I tend to agree with your assessment,  
> tho.

Just for the sake of completeness: most TeX implementations use the  
Kpathsea library for path searching. Its idiosyncrasies are well  
documented right here:

http://www.tug.org/texinfohtml/kpathsea.html

regards,
Markus


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