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