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Subject: Re: Two questions
To: Bill Horne <horne@research.nj.nec.com>
Date: Thu, 15 Sep 1994 17:06:50 (BST)
From: Timothy Murphy <tim@maths.tcd.ie>
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In-Reply-To: <9409151128.ZM24831@telluride> from "Bill Horne" at Sep 15, 94 11:28:54 am
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> 2. It takes a REALLY LONG TIME for it to run (about 1-2 full minutes to
> pop up the X window). If I reset my XDVIFONTS environment variable to
> /usr/local/lib/texmf/fonts then it starts up quicker, but then it thinks
> that it needs to run MakeTeXPK to create some fonts, only to find out
> that the fonts have already been created.
Did you create the ls-R "database" by
% cd /usr/local/lib/texmf
% ls -LR > ls-R
This might speed things up.
I think the general path-searching mechanism is documented
in kpathsea.texi (in the kpathsea directory),
which can be processed by "tex kpathsea.texi".