Igor Pechtchanski writes: >> It appears that TeX does not support UNC paths while ls does. >> This is strange (I expected that to be handled transparently by the dll) This was disabled by default, as it clashes with the usage of '//' by kpathsea, and you can easily work around it, as you show. You can tell teTeX to look for hosts on the network whenever it finds '//' by setting the environment variable KPSE_SEARCH_UNC. See also: http://www.cygwin.com/ml/cygwin-announce/2002-08/msg00007.html Jan. -- Jan Nieuwenhuizen <janneke@gnu.org> | GNU LilyPond - The music typesetter http://www.xs4all.nl/~jantien | http://www.lilypond.org -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/