From: rjvdboon AT cs DOT vu DOT nl (Boon van der RJ)
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Subject: Re: In TeX, what is the default value for $TEXINPUTS ?
Date: 30 Oct 1997 10:20:06 GMT
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Olivier PERRON (olivier DOT perron AT art DOT alcatel DOT fr) wrote:
>I've installed Bernard Gaulle's french package for TeX and had a lot of
>problems because I could'nt figure out what is the default value for the
>TEXINPUTS variable.
>I needed to know this value, because the installing process needs to use
>some specific directories BEFORE the standards one. The way to do this
>is to set the TEXINPUTS variable and declaring the specific directories
>FIRST.

I thought all you have to do is
TEXINPUTS=your_specific_dir;another_specific_dir;
the ; at the end so it will append the default texinputs.

See also TeX's documentation.

hth,
 Robert.
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