Hi,
if texdoctk is called from the $HOME directory and there exists a file
"texdocrc.defaults" in this directory, then texdoctk fails with an
error message:
Couldn't open database ./texdoctk.dat.
There are two variables that describe locations of config files,
namely $sysrc and $myrc.
$sysrc is determined by running the command
kpsewhich --progname=texdoctk --format='other text files' texdocrc.defaults
The path searched by kpsewhich contains "." as its first element, so
$sysrc points to a file "texdocrc.defaults" in the current working
directory instaed of the real system file.
This is not bad in general, but obviously the value of $sysrc is used
to find the database file as well.
There are two solutions. The first one is to move to an existing
directory ("/", for example) where a "texdocrc.defaults" certainly
doesn't exist.
I tried "cd / && kpsewhich --progname=..." with success.
On Widows you could move to C:\ but probably L. User declares this to
his $HOME directory.
The second solution is to call the user config file "texdocrc"
instead of "texdocrc.defaults". In this case you avoid trouble with
different systems. Dvips looks for a file "$HOME/dvipsrc" and I think
that it is not a bad idea if texdoctk has a config file that looks
similar.
Regards,
Reinhard
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