John O'Gorman wrote:
Matej Cepl wrote:

BTW: What does "kpse" mean? Wikipedia doesn't know anything about it ;-)


It is based on the library which is shared by all TeX related programs (including `which tex` itself) which is called libkpathsea. I am not sure about "k", but the rest is abbreviation of "path search".


I think the k is for Knuth (Donald Knuth, the author of TeX)

they were created by Karl Berry, the nowadys TUG president ...

Herbert


-- http://TeXnik.de/ http://PSTricks.de/ ftp://ftp.dante.de/tex-archive/info/math/voss/Voss-Mathmode.pdf http://www.dante.de/faq/de-tex-faq/ http://www.tex.ac.uk/cgi-bin/texfaq2html?introduction=yes

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