Bonjour, as a TeX user I very puzzled using TeX/LaTeX under FC6: 1- man is not up to date: it refers to initex (and some other init scripts for TeX which no longer exist...) 2- as it took almost 10 seconds before latex begun to compile a file, I used strace to see why.... and I discovered that latex was reading all directories in my home dir to find the file it needed to compile my (small) test file!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! It is more and more like M$ which search a file in all possible directories instead of reading an uptodate database. Don't understand why it is like this! QUESTIONS: how to build babel format for latex, pdflatex and Co as initex and pdfinitex no longer exist? how to prevent TeX/Latex read all directories and subdirectories and subsubdirectories and.... before compiling a file. In a word: how to set the environment variables ..... Regards. -- François Patte UFR de mathématiques et informatique Université René Descartes http://www.math-info.univ-paris5.fr/~patte
