Re: File finding

[Valeriy E. Ushakov]

On Thu, Jun 10, 1999 at 08:46:48PM +0400, Colin Klipsch wrote:

> Why does this:
> 
>     @PrependGraphic{"prolog.ps"}
>                      ^^^^^^^^^
> _successfully_ find the specified file in the current working
> directory,

Because @PrependGraphic looks for it in the working directory.

> whereas this:
> 
>     fontdef DotMatrix Base { Dot-Matrix
>         "dotmatrx.afm" LtLatin1.LCM Recode }
>          ^^^^^^^^^^^^
> _fails_ to find its file?

Because fontdef looks for the AFM file in $LOULIB/font directory only.
Use `-F .' to make it look for the AFM files in the current directory
as well.  Also the LCM files are looked for in $LOULIB/maps, use `-C .'.


> Terminally curious...

Hope this helps.


SY, Uwe
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