Message-Id: Date: Tue, 10 Nov 98 14:36:00 MET From: RJ vd Boon To: Eli Zaretskii cc: djgpp AT delorie DOT com Subject: Re: ANNOUNCE: TeX/Web2c v7.2b ported and uploaded Reply-To: djgpp AT delorie DOT com In your letter dated Tue, 10 Nov 1998 15:14:53 +0200 (IST), you wrote: > On 10 Nov 1998, Boon van der RJ wrote: > > By the way, is it intentional that some important directories > > (share/texmf and share/texmf/fonts) are unpacked with the read-only > > attribute set? > It's intentional: it causes the generated fonts to go to a different tree > (%DJDIR%/var/texfonts, see the DJGPP-specific README file which explains > that). I've read it completely (twice), I only didn't notice any word like: "by default the TEXMF and TEXMF/fonts are read-only" It might be usefull to cut and paste the little explenation to TeX.README. > I understand that you needed to remove the bit because you added > additional font files from CTAN to the TEXMF tree, and needed to run > mktexlsr after adding them. Almost (I added my already generated PK-files + some custom style-files). [snip] > Alternatively, you could unpack the additional fonts to yet another > tree, and add it to TEXMF variable (or define TEXMFLOCAL variable > which is by default not defined). [snip] You're completely right again ;-) What I did was the quickest hack, what you suggest is a clean solution (notice the subtext of hack and solution). I was so anxious to use the newest version I didn't look at the new possibilities there are now. Tonight I'll add a new tree, plus use the var/fonts method. Hope I won't find any bugs. bye now, and thanks again, Robert -- rjvdboon AT cs DOT vu DOT nl | "En dat is niet waar!" sprak ex-Staatsecretaris- www.cs.vu.nl/~rjvdboon | van-Onderwijs Netelenbos fel.