---Reply to mail from Jean-Marc Lasgouttes about Missing instructions about LYX_DIR in 
README.bin.example

> Hmm, this should not be necessary, since, if LyX binary is in
> /foo/bin/lyx, it searches its data in 
>  /foo/bin/../share/lyx == /foo/share/lyx
> 
> I'd be curious to know why this did not work. What did your user do?

I will check.  I don't have his/her mail here (on home machine).  I'll ask
later.  Thanks for clearing that up. 
> 
> There is one thing which has been fixed for 1.0.1: the case where you
> unpack in /foo and do
> 
> ln -s /foo/bin/lyx /usr/local/bin/lyx
> 
> Now, lyx tries to follow symbolic links.
> 
> Was that the problem that your user had?

May have been.  

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