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Re: [O] pdflatex not found?
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Rainer M Krug |
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Re: [O] pdflatex not found? |
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Tue, 27 Oct 2015 19:30:20 +0100 |
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Peter Davis <address@hidden> writes:
> On 10/27/15 1:50 PM, Nick Dokos wrote:
>> Peter Davis <address@hidden> writes:
>>> According to
>>> <http://www.science.unitn.it/~fiorella/guidelinux/gs/node153.html>,
>>> .profile is
>>> bash-specific. tcsh has a different set of login/session initialization
>>> files.
>>>
>> No, it does not say that .profile is bash-specific at all: it
>> just says it's used by bash and not used by tcsh. What *is*
>> specific to bash is $HOME/.bash_profile.
>
> Sorry.
>
>> But when setting up the window environment on Linux, the various scripts
>> are executed by whatever POSIX shell is available on the system (usually
>> sh on Linux), because a POSIX shell is supposed to be part of a POSIX
>> system, so guaranteed to be available (which is not true of csh/tcsh).
>> Hence .profile is the common denominator.
>
> Yes, .profile is the common denominator ... except where it isn't.
And on OS X everything is different anyway and changes from time to time.
Cheers,
Rainer
>
> Thanks,
> -pd
>
>
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- Re: [O] pdflatex not found?, Rainer M Krug, 2015/10/27
- Re: [O] pdflatex not found?, Nick Dokos, 2015/10/27
- Re: [O] pdflatex not found?, Rainer M Krug, 2015/10/27
- Re: [O] pdflatex not found?, Peter Davis, 2015/10/27
- Re: [O] pdflatex not found?, Nick Dokos, 2015/10/27
- Re: [O] pdflatex not found?, Peter Davis, 2015/10/27
- Re: [O] pdflatex not found?,
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- Re: [O] pdflatex not found?, Nick Dokos, 2015/10/27
Re: [O] pdflatex not found?, Rainer M Krug, 2015/10/27
Re: [O] pdflatex not found?, Peter Davis, 2015/10/27