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RE: hidden share - latex error - Unrecognized variable construct `$'
- From: ericblake at comcast dot net (Eric Blake)
- To: Stephan Mueller <Stephan dot Mueller at microsoft dot com>, Poor Yorick <com dot cygwin dot cygwin at pooryorick dot com>, cygwin at cygwin dot com
- Date: Fri, 18 Nov 2005 01:26:27 +0000
- Subject: RE: hidden share - latex error - Unrecognized variable construct `$'
http://cygwin.com/acronyms/#TOFU - reformatted
> >
> > My pwd is drive mapped to a windows share where the last character is a
> > "$" (dollar sign). Latex reports lines of identical warnings:
> >
> > warning: //<host>/<share>$: Unrecognized variable construct `$'
If anything, it is a LaTex bug, report it there.
>
> If you're looking for a workaround, I'd say easiest (and probably
> obvious) is to net use a share name that doesn't end in $. Ask the
> owner of the sharing machine to provide one.
Or, use mount to create a mount point to the share so that
latex does not have to see the trailing $. Symlinks would
also do the trick, but they are not as efficient as mount points.
--
Eric Blake
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