Re: environment variable

>>>>> "Oliver" == Oliver Grewe <[email protected]> writes:

  > [...]

  >  when both users are ready, both will checkin with CVS (Concurrent
  > Versions System) their files and also their latex stuff !

  >  NOTE: When one of them wants to create a report on
  > machine-a/part-xy, he will need from part-x and part-y all
  > latex-files from the other user/users.  He (this user) will do an
  > update in $HOME/machine-a/part-xy and should get all files which
  > user1 and user2 produced and cheked into CVS.

  >  because he used the $HOME env-variable in the latex -files he is
  > now able to produce the report(s) for machine 'a' !

But $HOME does nothing else than to expand to /home/<username>.

Suppose that everyone has its own $TEXMFHOME tree, it should then be
sufficient to create a file "/home/olli/texmf/tex/generic/home.tex"
which contains something like

    \def\HOME{/home/olli}

Then in your document you can say

    \input{home}
    \input{\HOME/some-file}  %% expands to \input{/home/olli/some-file}

and the result should be the same as

    \input{$HOME/some-file}  %% expands to \input{/home/olli/some-file}

Regards,
  Reinhard

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