From: Rainer M Krug <Rainer@krugs.de>
To: Peter Davis <pfd@pfdstudio.com>
Cc: emacs-orgmode@gnu.org
Subject: Re: pdflatex not found?
Date: Tue, 27 Oct 2015 19:30:20 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <m2fv0wcgg3.fsf@krugs.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <562FBB69.9090305@pfdstudio.com> (Peter Davis's message of "Tue, 27 Oct 2015 13:59:05 -0400")
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Peter Davis <pfd@pfdstudio.com> writes:
> 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.
And on OS X everything is different anyway and changes from time to time.
Cheers,
Rainer
>
> Thanks,
> -pd
>
>
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2015-10-27 18:30 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
2015-10-27 18:30 ` Rainer M Krug [this message]
2015-10-27 17:14 ` Nick Dokos
2015-10-27 15:40 ` Rainer M Krug
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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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