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

`Never underestimate the evil of which men of power are capable.'
         --Bertrand Russell, _War Crimes in Vietnam_, chapter 1.
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