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> From: Michal Jaegermann <michal@GORTEL.PHYS.UALBERTA.CA>
> Subject:      RE: styles and locations
> To: Michael Barr <barr@TRIPLES.Math.McGill.CA>
> In-Reply-To:  <93Nov9.023802mst.95588@relay.Phys.UAlberta.Ca>; from "Alex
>               Stark"at Nov 9, 93 8:30 am
> Status: R
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>
>

> > For example:
> >
> > TEXINPUTS\classes \      for main style classes such as ARTICLE
> >
> >          \fontsel \      for font selections such as
> >          \fontsel \times
> >          \fontsel \amssymb
> ....
> >                   %
> > fontsel/times,
> > journals/iop/jop,
> > pscript/epsf      %
> >                   %
> > ]{classes/report}
>
> Not every operating system has the same notion of a file system
> hierarchy.  If we could get rid off some deficient OSes, MS-DOS
> in the first place, then our life would be so much simpler.
>
>    --mj
>

Yes, and it would have the added advantage of getting rid of 3/4 of
all tex users, and imagine how much trouble that would save the rest
of you.  Besides, MS-DOS isn't the only, merely the most
conspicuous, example of a file system that seriously restricts the
length of filenames.

On another tack.  Someone suggested that some of these problems were
better solved using alternate directories and a configuration file.
It's funny, but the previewer and print driver both use
configuration files, but tex doesn't.  Would it be possible to
modify the latex \include so that there was a notion of default
directory that it looked at first?

Michael Barr