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To: mackay@cs.washington.edu (Pierre MacKay)
Cc: kb@cs.umb.edu, fj@iesd.auc.dk, tex-k@cs.umb.edu
Subject: Re: Kpathsearch -- database searching
Reply-To: janl@ifi.uio.no
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Wed, 16 Mar 1994 14:56:23 PST." <199403162256.OAA23428@june.cs.washington.edu>
Date: Thu, 17 Mar 1994 01:54:09 +0100
From: Nicolai Langfeldt <janl@math.uio.no>
mackay@cs.washington.edu (Pierre MacKay) keyed:
> The reason I'm willing to go to all this trouble is I think that it's
> very important that if a file (foo.tex, say) *does* exist, but is *not
> in the database, that TeX should find it. There is nothing more
...
> I support that argument all the way. Even if it isn't quite
> a zillion databases, when you make up a new file that hasn't been
I don't. Or at least I wanna be able to disable it. Which is why
I removed all paths components but '.' from paths.h.in. Forces
the programs to rely on the database _only_ (except for a short
search in the current dir of-course)
If I give tex or xdvi a search path that has any chance of finding any
sty/tex/pk/tfm files live the startup time becomes unacceptable. The
reason is that for legal (comercial fonts) and practical reasons (not
many want to keep all those fonts around) this universety has _one_
font server which is nfs mounted from all over the place, On the
upside that server has a gazilion fonts in loads of magsteps. As you
can imagine this leads to a not unsignificant startuptime, except
when using a database only. Regenerating the database is a simple matter
of running a script, or possebly if just one file or a few files have
been added a matter of some cut and paste in a editor (or a pipe if I
didn't have a X machine)
Anyway, that's the way it looks from the my cabage patch.
Nicolai