Ryan Johnson <ryan.john...@cs.utoronto.ca> was heard to say:
AFAIK, it's a tex thing and has little or no relation to anything linux or unix. Other than that I tend to agree with your assessment, tho.
Just for the sake of completeness: most TeX implementations use the Kpathsea library for path searching. Its idiosyncrasies are well documented right here:
http://www.tug.org/texinfohtml/kpathsea.html regards, Markus -- Markus Hoenicka http://www.mhoenicka.de AQ score 38 -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple
