>>>>> "Scott" == Scott J Henson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> It seems that in the last update to tetex(3) pdfetex was set as > the default render engine for tex. I am having problems with it > in that it doesn't interpret environment variables in the tex > files. The old engine(etex) interpreted them properly. Is there > a way to switch back to etex or get pdfetex to interpret the > environment variables? Thank you. It had never been intended that TeX supports environment variables. I remember that there had been a discussion about it long time ago, but I don't remember any details. Obviously somthing had been changed indeed a few years ago, but as I said before, it had never been intended to support environment variables. You can still use environment variables in some situations, for instance \catcode`\$=12 \input $HOME/envtest.tex \bye Does this work? This is not a feature of TeX, it's the shell which expands $HOME. I don't think that it is useful to add features like this to TeX. In a few months pdf*tex will have a Lua interpreter built in which will give you more convenient access to the environment. See http://www.lua.org for details about Lua. However, it would be helpful to have a precise description of your problem and a small .tex file which demonstrates your problem. Regards, Reinhard -- ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Reinhard Kotucha Phone: +49-511-4592165 Marschnerstr. 25 D-30167 Hannover mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Microsoft isn't the answer. Microsoft is the question, and the answer is NO. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------
