TeX Directory Structure
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TeX Directory Structure (TDS) is a directory hierarchy for macros, fonts, and the other implementation-independent TeX system files. The top-level directories are
tex
for TeX files (including LaTeX and other macro packages)fonts
for font-related filesmetafont
for METAFONT filesmetapost
for MetaPost filesbibtex
for BibTeX filesscripts
for platform-independent executablesdoc
for for user documentationsource
for sources
TDS is used by several TeX distributions, including teTeX, TeX Live and MiKTeX.