Sanjoy—thanks for pointing me to the thread. I must have missed it  
the first time around.

I inserted Hans’
f.write("#{program} #{callname} \"$@\"\012")
in my texmfstart, changing the original  012 to 015 as Taco suggested  
for the Mac. But now I get
	syntax error near unexpected token `"#{program} #{callname} \"$@\"\015"
whenever I run texmfstart. (The same, if I restore 012 as well.) I am  
running Mac OS X 10.4.7.

In any case, I have probably misunderstood the thread. Has a summary  
been posted somewhere that I might consult?

Alan

On Aug 6, 2006, at 9:39 AM, Sanjoy Mahajan wrote:

>>    kpsewhich: option `--expand-var' requires an argument
>
> See the Ubuntu installation thread a couple weeks ago (search for
> TEXMFLOCAL and Ubuntu).  The problem is that TEXMFLOCAL isn't being
> evaluated properly due to quoting differences between Unix and Windows
> syntax (with ctxtools using the Windows syntax at the moment).
>
> -Sanjoy
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