[tex-live] TeX Live 2010 : odd behaviour after moving to spare system on removable disc

Robin Fairbairns Robin.Fairbairns at cl.cam.ac.uk
Tue Nov 8 09:44:32 CET 2011


Heiko Oberdiek <heiko.oberdiek at googlemail.com> wrote:

> On Mon, Nov 07, 2011 at 11:34:41PM +0000, Philip TAYLOR wrote:
> 
> > but "SELFAUTOPARENT"
> > to refer to the /grand/parent directory just blows my mind.
> > I am sure that Karl had a good reason to choose these names,
> > but they are not exactly self-explanatory, by any stretch
> > of the imagination !
> 
> SELFAUT*OPA*RENT contains "Opa", that is "grandpa" in German. ;-)

rather feeble cryptic obscurity...

robin


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