[tex-k] About Kpathsea

[樊智猛]

Dear Karl Berry, Olaf Weber, and Taco Hoekwater,

I am an user of LaTeX in China. I hava a question that may sounds silly:
why Kpathsea is called Kpathsea?, is it a word in Dutch, German, or not
a word at all?
--
Zhimeng Fan

Student(Bachelor Candidate)

Tongji University

School of Electronics and Information Engineering

ShangHai,P.R.China

[Jay F Shachter]

Post by 樊智猛
Dear Karl Berry, Olaf Weber, and Taco Hoekwater,
why Kpathsea is called Kpathsea?, is it a word in Dutch, German, or not
a word at all?
--
Zhimeng Fan

The "pathsea" stands for "path search". Someone else will have to
tell us what the "k" signifies.


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[Norman Gray]

Greetings.

Post by Jay F Shachter
The "pathsea" stands for "path search". Someone else will have to
tell us what the "k" signifies.

It's 'Karl's path-searching library', but (as I understand it) crammed into the eight characters mandated by the DOS filesystems which were still ubiquitous when it first appeared.

Norman

[Arthur Reutenauer]

Post by Jay F Shachter

Post by 樊智猛
Dear Karl Berry, Olaf Weber, and Taco Hoekwater,
[snip]

The "pathsea" stands for "path search". Someone else will have to
tell us what the "k" signifies.

I am guessing it has to do with the name of the first addressee in the original post ;-)

Arthur