[tex-k] Interesting problems with EPS file searchng (with dvips)

[Tom Kacvinsky]

OK, I tried the TEXPICTS env. var., and I had the same problem.

I think my original analysis stills tands -- kpathsea does not expect file names
passed off to its search engine to contain path components.

Tom

On Thu, 29 Nov 2001, Tom Kacvinsky wrote:

> Yes, I realized I made a typo.  I meant to write that I set the TEXINPUTS
> env. var. to /path/to/dvi (in which case, ./eps/foo.eps should be found,
> because there is a file /path/to/dvi/./eps/foo.eps)
>
> I will try the TEXPICTS env. var. and see how I fare.
>
> Tom
>
> On Thu, 29 Nov 2001, Akira Kakuto wrote:
>
> > From: Tom Kacvinsky <tjk@ams.org>
> > Subject: [tex-k] Interesting problems with EPS file searchng (with dvips)
> >
> > > I am using using the following (output from dvips --version):
> > >
> > >   dvips(k) 5.86
> > >   kpathsea version 3.3.1
> > >
> > > I have a DVI file (file.dvi) in which the graphic \specials specify the EPS
> > > files with a path like "./eps/foo.eps".
> > >
> > > The directory structure I have is this:
> > >
> > >     /path/to/dvi
> > >     /path/to/dvi/eps
> > >
> > > The file.dvi is in /path/to/dvi and the EPS files are in /path/to/dvi/eps.
> > >
> > > If I have /path/to/dvi as my CWD and run dvips on file.dvi, the graphics are
> > > found.
> > >
> > > If I have /path/to as my CWD and run dvips on dvi/file.dvi, the graphics are not
> > > found (not surprising).  So I set the environment variable TEXINPUTS to
> > > "/path/to/dvi/eps:" and rerun dvips on dvi/file.dvi.  The graphics are still not
> > > found.
> >
> > Please set TEXPICTS=/path/to/dvi//:
> > or TEXPICTS=/path/to//:.
> > There is no ./eps/foo.eps in /path/to/dvi/eps.
> >
>
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