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Re: Lost /bin/latex?


Igor,

% uname -a
CYGWIN_NT-5.0 CLEMENS 1.3.12(0.54/3/2) 2002-07-06 02:16 i686 unknown

% type -a latex
latex is /usr/bin/latex
latex is /bin/latex
latex is /cygdrive/d/Apps/texmf/miktex/bin/latex

% type -a tex
tex is /usr/bin/tex
tex is /bin/tex
tex is /cygdrive/d/Apps/texmf/miktex/bin/tex

% ll /bin/latex /bin/tex.exe
lrwxrwxrwx 1 RSchulz None 86 Aug 14 11:21 /bin/latex -> tex*
-rwxrwxrwx 1 Administ None 220672 Aug 9 06:41 /bin/tex.exe*

% cygcheck latex
Found: d:\Apps\texmf\miktex\bin\latex.exe
d:\Apps\texmf\miktex\bin\latex.exe
d:\Apps\texmf\miktex\bin\tex.dll
d:\Apps\texmf\miktex\bin\miktex21.dll
D:\WINNT\System32\KERNEL32.dll
D:\WINNT\System32\NTDLL.DLL
D:\WINNT\System32\ADVAPI32.dll
D:\WINNT\System32\RPCRT4.DLL
D:\WINNT\System32\MSVCP60.dll
D:\WINNT\System32\MSVCRT.dll
d:\Apps\texmf\miktex\bin\texmf21.dll
D:\WINNT\System32\USER32.dll
D:\WINNT\System32\GDI32.dll

% cygcheck D:/cygwin/bin/tex.exe
D:/cygwin/bin/tex.exe
D:/cygwin/bin\cygkpathsea-3-3-7.dll
D:/cygwin/bin\cygwin1.dll
D:\WINNT\System32\KERNEL32.dll
D:\WINNT\System32\NTDLL.DLL

% cygcheck D:/Apps/texmf/miktex/bin/tex.exe
D:/Apps/texmf/miktex/bin/tex.exe
D:/Apps/texmf/miktex/bin\tex.dll
D:/Apps/texmf/miktex/bin\miktex21.dll
D:\WINNT\System32\KERNEL32.dll
D:\WINNT\System32\NTDLL.DLL
D:\WINNT\System32\ADVAPI32.dll
D:\WINNT\System32\RPCRT4.DLL
D:\WINNT\System32\MSVCP60.dll
D:\WINNT\System32\MSVCRT.dll
D:/Apps/texmf/miktex/bin\texmf21.dll
D:\WINNT\System32\USER32.dll
D:\WINNT\System32\GDI32.dll

So on my system, I'm picking up pieces from my MikTeX installation, which happens to be in my active PATH (my .bash_login culls out PATH entries that contain spaces, but that leaves the MikTeX directories).

Perhaps you changed you system-wide PATH or how you set up your Cygwin PATH or rearranged some part of your other TeX software that severed the connection that used to provide you access to latex from Cygwin.


<http://cygwin.com/cgi-bin2/package-grep.cgi?grep=latex.exe> yields:

Found 0 matches for latex.exe.

Which confirms its absence from the tetex package (and all other packages). Searching for "latex" shows 27 hits, including Lilypond, MC, Perl, Python and various tetex packages.


Randall Schulz
Mountain View, CA USA


At 13:28 2002-09-24, you wrote:
Hi, all.
Am I going crazy, or has my computer lost /bin/latex?  For some reason I
recall using tetex to process latex documents.  However, now that I've
looked, I can't find /bin/latex.exe.  It's not even part of the tetex
package.  Anyone else have that problem?
        Igor
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