X-VM-v5-Data: ([nil nil nil nil nil nil nil nil nil] ["603" "Tue" "9" "November" "93" "14:56:54" "MET" "Siep Kroonenberg" "N.S.Kroonenberg@ECO.RUG.NL" nil "18" "RE: style paths" "^Date:" nil nil "11"]) Return-Path: Received: from sc.ZIB-Berlin.DE (mailserv) by dagobert.ZIB-Berlin.DE (4.1/SMI-4.0/24.6.93) id AA09347; Tue, 9 Nov 93 15:59:20 +0100 Received: from vm.urz.Uni-Heidelberg.de (vm.hd-net.uni-heidelberg.de) by sc.ZIB-Berlin.DE (4.1/SMI-4.0-sc/03.06.93) id AA10704; Tue, 9 Nov 93 15:59:16 +0100 Message-Id: <9311091459.AA10704@sc.ZIB-Berlin.DE> Received: from DHDURZ1 by vm.urz.Uni-Heidelberg.de (IBM VM SMTP V2R2) with BSMTP id 3319; Tue, 09 Nov 93 15:57:51 CET Received: from DHDURZ1 by DHDURZ1 (Mailer R2.08 R208004) with BSMTP id 0882; Tue, 09 Nov 93 15:57:42 CET Received: from DHDURZ1 by DHDURZ1 (Mailer R2.08 R208004) with BSMTP id 0880; Tue, 09 Nov 93 15:57:40 CET Reply-To: Mailing list for the LaTeX3 project Date: Tue, 9 Nov 93 14:56:54 MET+1 From: Siep Kroonenberg Sender: Mailing list for the LaTeX3 project To: Multiple Recipients of Subject: RE: style paths Status: R X-Status: X-Keywords: X-UID: 1123 > The use of large numbers of environment variables is completely unacceptable > on our system. This is partly because of the inconvenience and complications > that can arise, but also because some older machines have severely limited > environment space. > > Alex Stark. > I don't like excessive use of environment variables either. For (La)TeX implementors, it should be easy to make this unnecessary if they allow configuration files and/or set sensible defaults. Siep KroonenbergSiep Kroonenberg Rijksuniversiteit Groningen Vakgroep Algemene Economie Postbus 800 9700 AV Groningen the Netherlands