Oliver Buerschaper wrote:
when discussing the cache Arthur had a preference for HOME, so home is tested before TMPDIR
On a Mac the (persistent) user cache should probably go to a subdirectoy of $HOME/Library/Caches/ because this is where most applications store their cache data. Will have to check back with the Apple file system specification though ...
in that case you need to set it up in texmfcnf.lua Hans ----------------------------------------------------------------- Hans Hagen | PRAGMA ADE Ridderstraat 27 | 8061 GH Hasselt | The Netherlands tel: 038 477 53 69 | fax: 038 477 53 74 | www.pragma-ade.com | www.pragma-pod.nl -----------------------------------------------------------------