payne@stsci.EDU (Harry Payne) (03/13/91)
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.)
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