Andrea, what kind of installation are you using? Gerben's i-installer or fink or have you installed tetex on your own? If you want to find out where different files reside, run this command: kpsewhere mp-spec.mp on my system (Gerben's architecture), I get: /usr/local/teTeX/share/texmf.local/metapost/context/base/mp-spec.mp /usr/local/teTeX/share/texmf.tetex/metapost/context/base/mp-spec.mp The first file is the one actually used by your TeX-installation, so this is the one you'd need to modify. Actually, "all this unix- filename always repeating" is there for a very good reason, so don't complain about it... Good luck Thomas On Nov 8, 2005, at 10:48 AM, andrea valle wrote:
I'm getting really lost with all this unix-filename always repeating in different parts of the directory tree.