Re: environment variable
Reinhard Kotucha <[email protected]>
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>>>>> "Vladimir" == Vladimir Volovich <[email protected]> writes: > since when did TeX know anything about arbitrary environment > variables like HOME, and allowed to transparently and naively use > them in TeX documents? your statement that "in our documents we > have often something like \usepackage{$HOME/path...}", and that > works in teTeX 1.0, seems very unlikely to be true. Some years ago I had been experimenting with things like this and it worked indeed. It didn't work with arbitrary variables, but in this case $HOME is part of the filename. I suppose that formerly the filename had been passed to a shell (which expanded $HOME) and nowadays a system call is used instead. TeX itself never expanded env-vars. Regards, Reinhard -- ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Reinhard Kotucha Phone: +49-511-4592165 Marschnerstr. 25 D-30167 Hannover mailto:[email protected] ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Microsoft isn't the answer. Microsoft is the question, and the answer is NO. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------