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Date:         Tue, 9 Nov 93 13:06:26 CST
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Subject:      Re:      RE: styles and locations
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>Date:         Tue, 9 Nov 93 09:30:47 CST
>From:         Alex Stark <jas1@ENGINEERING.CAMBRIDGE.AC.UK>
>
>I do not know whether or not it is because I have set up our (em)TeX
>installation badly, but our TEXINPUTS directory has 270 files in it. I would
>really like to be able to divide these into subdirectories. The problem with
>that is that users' files wouldn't process properly. Therefore I tentatively
>suggest the following.
>
>All LaTeX2e inputs should be placed in subdirectories of TEXINPUTS.

[detailed example omitted]

>It seems to me that the few extra characters here are worth it.
>
>This is just an idea, but something must be done about those 270 files!
>

HEAR! HEAR! Yes, please, let's do *something* about the structure of
texinputs. It would make administration, maintainance, and upkeep so
much easier on my own machine and on the 50+ in the department.

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Phil Parker                          Internet: pparker@twsuvm.uc.twsu.edu
Math. Dept., Wichita St. Univ.       Bitnet: pparker@twsuvm
"[Do not] put too much confidence in experimental results until they have
been confirmed by theory."  ---Sir Arthur Eddington