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From: Peter Davis <pfd@pfdstudio.com>
To: emacs-orgmode@gnu.org
Subject: Re: pdflatex not found?
Date: Tue, 27 Oct 2015 13:59:05 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <562FBB69.9090305@pfdstudio.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87oafk5hfi.fsf@alphaville.usersys.redhat.com>



On 10/27/15 1:50 PM, Nick Dokos wrote:
> Peter Davis <pfd@pfdstudio.com> 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.

Thanks,
-pd

  reply	other threads:[~2015-10-27 17:59 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 28+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2015-10-27 13:43 pdflatex not found? Peter Davis
2015-10-27 13:55 ` Fatma Başak Aydemir
2015-10-27 15:37   ` Nick Dokos
2015-10-27 15:48     ` Rainer M Krug
2015-10-27 15:51     ` John Kitchin
2015-10-27 15:58       ` Rainer M Krug
2015-10-27 16:06         ` Cook, Malcolm
2015-10-28 12:40           ` Alan Schmitt
2015-10-27 15:44   ` Rainer M Krug
2015-10-27 16:19     ` Nick Dokos
2015-10-27 16:45       ` Rainer M Krug
2015-10-27 17:02         ` Peter Davis
2015-10-27 17:50           ` Nick Dokos
2015-10-27 17:59             ` Peter Davis [this message]
2015-10-27 18:30               ` Rainer M Krug
2015-10-27 17:14         ` Nick Dokos
2015-10-27 15:40 ` Rainer M Krug
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2015-10-27 16:12 Peter Davis
2015-10-27 16:40 ` Rainer M Krug
2015-10-26 22:18 Peter Davis
2015-10-27  0:14 ` Nick Dokos
2015-10-27  5:45   ` Rainer M Krug
2015-10-27 16:07   ` Charles C. Berry
2015-10-26 19:26 Peter Davis
2015-10-26 19:50 ` John Hendy
2015-10-26 20:29   ` Myles English
2015-10-26 21:43     ` Charles C. Berry
2015-10-26 20:03 ` Nick Dokos

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