[OS X TeX] Lost in Mac space

[Victor Ivrii]

On Sat, Dec 13, 2008 at 8:01 AM, Friedrich Vosberg <fvosberg at me.com> wrote:
> Morning.
> On 13.12.2008, at 13.39, Victor Ivrii wrote:
>

> The best thing would be to get it in TDS form: [...] drag foo.tds.zip there
> (into texmf). Unzip it.
>
> I ever hesitate to do so. Does unzip really not overwrite and delete entries
> in texmf, but only copies the new item into the appropriate directories?
> TIA and kind regards, Friedrich

Yes it does not replace directories, but adds to them. And creates new
directories if they are not here. If you are a paranoid (I am) you can
unzip to your desktop and then manually drug: advantage you know what
going where.





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