[OS X TeX] Wrong latex getting used.

[Alex Hamann]

On 03.03.2009, at 19:28, Rolf Turner wrote:

>
> On 3/03/2009, at 4:11 PM, Michael Hanson wrote:
>
>> Having seen your response to Herb's attempt to try to ferret out some
>> relevant facts of your LaTeX usage
>
> 	I found Prof. Schulz's reply facile and patronizing, and of
> 	no help whatever.

Here we go again... anyone else feeling reminded of a certain Rowland  
McDonnell as well?

>
> 	I made it very clear in my posting that I was perfectly
> 	familiar with the concept of ``path'' and knew exactly
> 	what its implications were.  I had simply been unable to
> 	get the system to respond to the way I'd set the path.
>
> 	It turned out that there was a perfectly simple explanation
> 	for the non-response to the system.  And perfectly obvious;
> 	it was right before my eyes and I (quite stupidly) did not
> 	see it.  There was a line in my .cshrc file
>
> 		``source /sw/bin/init.csh''
>
> 	*after* the point where I set my path.  So naturally my path
> 	got re-set.
>
> 	This was dumb on my part, but thing is I *know* about paths
> 	and what they do.  Prof. Schulz's reply was of no help in
> 	tracking down my (dumb) mistake.
> 	
> 	I took a great deal of trouble to compose a complete and
> 	clear explanation of my problem.  Getting Schulz's response
> 	was a bit like asking a question about stochastic differential
> 	equations and getting in response a lesson in elementary
> 	arithmetic.
>
>> I don't think I will be able to help you.
>
> 	Well, you're wrong!  Your suggestion no. 1 was spot on; that is
> 	(as explained above) the essence of what I was doing wrong.  Although
> 	the reality was even simpler than what you suggested.  My path
> 	was getting changed, not by some hidden dot file, but in the .cshrc
> 	file that I was looking at.  Right before my eyes.
>
> 	Still your suggestion would've got me thinking along the right lines.
> 	However Axel Retif had already drawn my attention to the init.csh
> 	issue.
>
> 		cheers,
>
> 			Rolf Turner
>
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