[OS X TeX] How to set a path in OS X.4

Maarten Sneep maarten.sneep at xs4all.nl
Fri Nov 25 17:32:45 EST 2005


On 25 Nov 2005, at 14:00, Felix Mueller wrote:

> Hello Georg,
>
> if you want to avoid editing .bashrc, .profile, .cshrc etc. you can
> set environment variables in ~/.MacOSX/environment.plist .

For a whole series of reasons (compatibility and security) you really  
want to avoid using this option. It has caused surprises and  
headaches in the past. It not only sets an environment variable for  
the shell, it sets it for all applications. You have been warned.

Maarten

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