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Re: texconfig rehash not working on Win98
- To: "Quoss, Clemens" <Clemens dot Quoss at Dresdner-Bank dot com>
- Subject: Re: texconfig rehash not working on Win98
- From: 520066587150-0001 at t-online dot de (Jerome BENOIT)
- Date: Thu, 11 Oct 2001 19:05:03 +0200
- CC: "'cygwin at cygwin dot com'" <cygwin at cygwin dot com>
- References: <9FD1B9BA394ED31181EC0008C7A4FFD2042C251F@ffz00zaj.wwz1me.mail.dresdner.net>
- Reply-To: JGMBenoit at Wanadoo dot fr
"Quoss, Clemens" wrote:
>
> Hello,
>
> I installed tetex both on a WinNT and a Win98 machine running Cygwin.
>
> I first installed the tetex texmf tree to /usr/share/texmf/, then
> re-installed
> the tetex package.
>
> On both machines the only change I did was to change the TEXMFMAIN
> var in the texmf.cnf file to /usr/share/texmf/.
>
> Then I did run 'texconfig confall', 'texconfig rehash' and 'texconfig init'
> on both machines. No obvious errors. But when I try to create the
> small2e.dvi file, I get the message 'latex.fmt not found' on the Win98
> machine. On WinNT, everything works fine.
>
> But latex.fmt resides on both machines in /usr/share/texmf/web2c/.
>
> So - my question is: Is there any difference between Win98 and WinNT
> with regard to tetex?
Of course NOT !
I am working under Win98, and allis fine:
>
> One hint might be that on Win98 the ls-R file is not being re-created using
> 'texconfig rehash'. Whereas on WinNT mktexlsr prints two lines like
>
> mktexlsr: file /usr/share/texmf/ls-R is being recreated...
> mktexlsr: Done.
>
> on Win98 I only get the latter line and ls-R is still from Feb, 1st 2000.
>
Try the following:
remove all `ls-R' files and rehash again.
Please let me know that is sufficient to fix your trouble.
Good TeXing,
Jerome BENOIT
> TIA
>
> Bye
>
> Clemens Quoss
>
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