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Re: Lost /bin/latex?


Thanks, Randy.  I've done most of this, and I also have MikTeX installed,
so the path was the first thing I've checked.  In fact, it was by seeing
that it picked up the MikTeX executables that I realized that the symlinks
were screwed up...  My latex installation now works correctly, but what
concerns me is that it was in an invalid state after install.
	Igor

On Tue, 24 Sep 2002, Randall R Schulz wrote:

> 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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