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Re: UNC paths in TeX
- From: Christopher Faylor <cgf-no-personal-reply-please at cygwin dot com>
- To: cygwin at cygwin dot com
- Date: Mon, 5 Jan 2004 16:26:47 -0500
- Subject: Re: UNC paths in TeX
- References: <uptdycdat.fsf@gnu.org>
- Reply-to: cygwin at cygwin dot com
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.
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