Re: TeX and NFS

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From: Marcel Mol
Date: Fri, 18 Aug 1989 21:49

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From article <WINDLEY.89Aug16084617@Self.cheetah.ucdavis.edu>, by windley@cheetah.ucdavis.edu (Phil Windley/20000000):
> 
> Has anyone noticed that IBM's TeX and Metafont don't seemed to get along
> with NFS.  I recently tried to put my metafont source files on a remotely
> mounted directory and MF couldn't find them.  I've also noticed that I
> can't TeX a files that is remotely mounted.  Does anyone know why?  Is
> there a PTF for this (he hopes ;-).  It is really annoying.
> 

The same problem occurs with distributed services. We reported the problem
to IBM more than a year ago. I has something to do with 'mapped files'.
We haven't heard anything about it since then. Some user up here
managed to get source code for tex and compiled it. This tex does work
on NFS.

-Marcel


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