Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
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From: david@doe.utoronto.ca (David Megginson)
Subject: Re: Prob with TeX 3.1/Metafont 2.7 for ATARI ST
Message-ID: <1991Jan16.031701.3487@doe.utoronto.ca>
Organization: Dictionary of Old English Project - U of Toronto
References: <18926@shlump.nac.dec.com> <AX2^58-@uzi-9mm.fulcrum.bt.co.uk>
Date: Wed, 16 Jan 1991 03:17:01 GMT

In article <AX2^58-@uzi-9mm.fulcrum.bt.co.uk> jvt@its.bt.co.uk (John Trickey) writes:

>>within GULAM ? The very short documentation says:
>>
>>       setenv TEXINPUTS ./:/dev/D/tex/texinput (!)
>
>Gulam (or Mupfel for those using Gemini) will not like that
>as the : cannot be used as a separator.  Also / is not understood
>in TOS. Assuming your files are D:\tex\* then you use the command
>
>	setenv TEXINPUTS .,d:\tex
>	or
>	setenv TEXINPUTS ".;d:\tex"
>
>Note the " in the second form to avoid the ; being taken as a command
>separator.

Actually, it doesn't matter _what_ shell you are using, you should use
the form with the forward slashes and colon as separator. That is because
it is not the shell, but TeX which will interpret the contents of the
variable, and the new TeX binaries want the paths in UNIXMODE format,
and with colons as separators. Therefore

	setenv TEXINPUTS ".:/dev/D/tex"

would be correct under any shell (which uses setenv).

Hope this isn't too confusing...

David
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