On Mon, Jan 05, 2004 at 04:10:02PM -0500, Sam Steingold wrote: >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) > >$ TEXINPUTS=//host/path:.: pdflatex gdm.tex >.... >! LaTeX Error: File `oubraces.sty' not found. >... >$ TEXINPUTS=/cygdrive/x/path:.: pdflatex gdm.tex >fine >$ ls //host/path >total 4 > 4 oubraces.sty >$ > >is this a known bug? >can I hope for a fix?
Many UNIX utilities assume that repeated slashes can be compressed into one slash. There is nothing that cygwin can do about that. You could always use a UNIX-like solution and mount the UNC path: mount //foo/bar /bar and refer to /bar from then on. -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
