fptex0.4a3

Thomas Esser te@informatik.uni-hannover.de
Thu, 24 Feb 2000 09:42:05 +0100 (MET)


> * Staszek Wawrykiewicz <StaW@gust.org.pl> writes:
> 
> > Certainly yes.  And also texmf.cnf. But please be carefully
> > $TEXMFLOCAL or $VARTEXMF?
> 
> VARTEXMF and TEXMFLOCAL mostly have the same role. The only difference

texconfig handles VARTEXMF (if set) in a special way. The VARTEXMF
is used for all files modified and created instead of TEXMFMAIN.

TEXMFLOCAL is just an additional texmf tree. VARTEXMF is an additional
texmf tree *with special meaning for texconfig*.

Thomas