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Re: UNC paths in TeX
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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