* Kpathsea: (kpathsea). File lookup along search paths. * kpsewhich: (kpathsea)Invoking kpsewhich. TeX file searching. * MakeTeXMF: (kpathsea)MakeTeX scripts. MF source generation. * MakeTeXPK: (kpathsea)MakeTeX scripts. PK bitmap generation. * MakeTeXTeX: (kpathsea)MakeTeX scripts. TeX source generation. * MakeTeXTFM: (kpathsea)MakeTeX scripts. TeX font metric generation. * MakeTeXls-R: (kpathsea)Filename database. Update ls-R.
Copyright (C) 1993, 94, 95, 96, 97 K. Berry.
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This manual corresponds to version 3.0 of the Kpathsea library, released in February 1997.
The library's fundamental purpose is to return a filename from a list of directories specified by the user, similar to what shells do when looking up program names to execute.
The following software, all of which I maintain, uses this library:
Other software that I do not maintain also uses it.
I am still actively maintaining the library (and probably always will be, despite my hopes). If you have comments or suggestions, please send them to me (see section Reporting bugs).
I distribute the library under the GNU Library General Public License (LGPL), with one exception (see below). In short, this means if you write a program using the library, you must (offer to) distribute the source to the library, along with any changes you have made, and allow anyone to modify the library source and distribute their modifications. It does not mean you have to distribute the source to your program, although I hope you will.
The exception is the part of the file `expand.c' which implements brace expansion. I took this from Bash, which is covered by the GNU General Public License (GPL). Therefore, if you wish to redistribute the library under the LGPL, you must remove this code. (If you write a replacement I can distribute, I hope you'll share it with me.) See the files `COPYING' and `COPYING.LIB' for the text of the GNU licenses.
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