dhosek@euler.claremont.edu (Don Hosek) (03/14/91)
In article <2354@ra.stsci.edu>, payne@stsci.EDU (Harry Payne) writes: > This question concerns how TeX finds .TFM files. I have defined > the logical TEX_FONTS to be the list of directories where .TFM files can > be found. TeX, however, seems to want the logical TEX$FONTS. The file > DECUS-TEX.CLD implies that if I build a new format file for TeX with: > TEX/INIT/NOFORMAT/TEXFONTS="TEX_FONTS:" PLAIN > the value of TEXFONTS is stored in the format file. Is that so? I did > the TEX/INIT and TeX still fails to find the .TFM files unless I define > TEX$FONTS. What have I failed to understand? > (Why bother? I need to keep an ancient version of TeX on the > same system to satisfy the powers that be. The ancient version uses > TEX$FONTS.) A few points: - logicals, program names, etc. containing a $ are non-standard DEC usage and are deprecated for use outside of DEC. - VMSTeX does not store the logical names in the format file but picks them up at run time from the CLI; check your CLD file definition of TeX and see if it is specifying the correct value for TEXFONTS; in any event you should not have a CLD with those values preprogrammed into it. -dh --- Don Hosek To retrieve files from ymir via the | dhosek@ymir.claremont.edu mailserver, send a message to | Quixote TeX Consulting mailserv@ymir.claremont.edu with a | 714-625-0147 line saying send [DIRECTORY]FILENAME where DIRECTORY is the FTP directory (sans "anonymous") and FILENAME is the filename, e.g. "send [tex]00readme.txt". There is a list of files in each directory under the name 00files.txt Binary files are not available by this technique.