[tex-live] kpsewhich on windows, the values of TEXMFVAR and TEXMFCONFIG

Ken Brown kbrow1i at gmail.com
Tue Feb 26 13:46:21 CET 2013


On 2/26/2013 7:36 AM, Lars Madsen wrote:
> Some time ago I asked for methods to ask a TL installation as to where the texmf-var and texmf-config folders are
>
> The suggestion I got was to use
>
> kpsewhich -var-value TEXMFVAR
> kpsewhich -var-value TEXMFCONFIG
>
> Now I've tested those, and was a bit surprised by the answer
>
> c:/Users/daleif/.texlive2012/texmf-var
> c:/Users/daleif/.texlive2012/texmf-config
>
> and not the expected
>
> c:/texlive/2012/texmf-var
> c:/texlive/2012/texmf-config
>
>
> How do it to give me the later?

Use TEXMFSYSVAR and TEXMFSYSCONFIG.

Ken



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