[6974] in testers
Re: 9.4 Linux: no locate database rebuild?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Aaron M. Ucko)
Thu May 12 22:00:03 2005
To: Kevin Chen <kchen@MIT.EDU>
Cc: Greg Hudson <ghudson@MIT.EDU>, John Hawkinson <jhawk@MIT.EDU>,
testers@MIT.EDU
From: amu@alum.MIT.EDU (Aaron M. Ucko)
Date: Thu, 12 May 2005 21:59:50 -0400
In-Reply-To: <testers:6971@unknown-discuss-server> (Kevin Chen's message of
"Wed, 11 May 2005 17:14:37 -0400")
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Kevin Chen <kchen@MIT.EDU> writes:
> fancyhdr.sty. I ran "locate fancyhdr.sty" to quickly find it and give
> it to him. I probably could have found it without locate, but it was
> easier and faster.
Although I favor keeping locate enabled, I feel compelled to note that
kpsewhich would have been an efficient alternative in this case.
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