X-VM-v5-Data: ([nil nil nil nil nil nil nil nil nil] ["643" "Tue" "9" "November" "93" "18:53:13" "GMT" "P.Taylor@RHBNC.AC.UK" "P.Taylor@RHBNC.AC.UK" nil "13" "RE: all-purpose files & suffixes" "^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 AA09709; Tue, 9 Nov 93 20:05:58 +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 AA11733; Tue, 9 Nov 93 20:05:57 +0100 Message-Id: <9311091905.AA11733@sc.ZIB-Berlin.DE> Received: from DHDURZ1 by vm.urz.Uni-Heidelberg.de (IBM VM SMTP V2R2) with BSMTP id 3965; Tue, 09 Nov 93 20:04:36 CET Received: from DHDURZ1 by DHDURZ1 (Mailer R2.08 R208004) with BSMTP id 2794; Tue, 09 Nov 93 20:04:24 CET Received: from DHDURZ1 by DHDURZ1 (Mailer R2.08 R208004) with BSMTP id 2792; Tue, 09 Nov 93 20:04:22 CET Reply-To: Mailing list for the LaTeX3 project Date: Tue, 9 Nov 93 18:53:13 GMT From: P.Taylor@RHBNC.AC.UK Sender: Mailing list for the LaTeX3 project To: Multiple Recipients of Subject: RE: all-purpose files & suffixes Status: R X-Status: X-Keywords: X-UID: 1134 >>> What we need for parallel versions of LaTeX (and other formats) to work >>> correctly is a different path for each one, so that the appropriate >>> times.sty is picked up (in default of my principle above). Unfortunately >>> TEXINPUTS is compiled in to virtex and cannot be switched from the format >>> (though it could be from a surrounding shell script). I think that here you are referring to a specific implementation; I can think of no reason why a system-dependent change should not allow TEXINPUTS to be specified on the command-line, and indeed I use every day a version of TeX which allows just that. Philip Taylor, RHBNC