[OS X TeX] Keeping TeX installations synchronized between machines

[Enrico Franconi]

You can install a very useful contextual menu item to create on the  
fly symbolic links of selected files/folders:
<http://seiryu.home.comcast.net/~seiryu/symboliclinker.html>
cheers
--e.

On 6 Jan 2010, at 21:08, Simon Spiegel wrote:

>
> On 06.01.2010, at 17:53, Alessandro Andretta wrote:
>
>> Dear All,
>>
>> could you explain what a sym link is? and, more importantly how to  
>> set it up?
>> I am using my iDisk to sync my documents between computers.
>> I tried to put an alias in ~/Library/texmf pointing to the files on  
>> the iDisk, but did not work.
>
> A symlink is something like an alias, but not quite the same. It  
> also refers to a location on your hard drive, but comes from the  
> Unix side. Symlinks are created in the shell, aliases in the Finder.  
> The main difference between symlinks and aliases is that a symlink  
> is completely transparent, meaning that the file system handles the  
> symlink exactly like the place it refers to which is not the case  
> with aliases.
>
> To create an alias you have to go the Terminal and enter something  
> like:
>
> ln -s target link_name
>
> So let's say you put your personal texmf tree on your iDisk, you had  
> to do something like this:
>
> Open the terminal
> Go to ~/Library with 'cd ~/Library'
> then create a symlink in ~/Library which refers to the texmf folder  
> on your iDisk 'ln -s /Volumes/nameofyouriDisk/texmf'
>
> After this, LaTeX will automatically use the texmf directory on your  
> iDisk.
>
> HTH
>
> Simon
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