Thanks for clearing this up. I was looking into texmfstart for precisely this reason: I have a linux (gentoo) system on another partition of my OS X box, and even though everything is exactly the same (except the binaries, of course), I always get "texexec.pl not found" when I run "texexec something." When I invoke "perl DARNED_LONG_PATH_TO_TEXEXEC.PL something," everything works. TEXMF.CNF and diretory structure is identical. Well, no big deal, I'll replace the texexec stub like you suggested. All best Thomas On Feb 6, 2005, at 11:19 PM, h h extern wrote:
Thomas A.Schmitz wrote:
True, but that's not what mtexmfstart.pdf says...
if one uses texmfstart, you only need to set the permission of texmfstart in the bin path; nowadays, my calls to script in the bin paths look like:
texexec ->
#!/bin/sh texmfstart texexec.pl $@
that way i'm independent of anything funny that will happen with kpsewhich (since i only need to adapt texmfstart); think of recent changes in the script path and scriptpath location method;
btw, you can use texmfstart for more things, like
texmfstart --direct scite kpse:texmf.cnf
this will launch scite and open the texmf.cnf file used by your current installation.
texmfstart version : 1.5.2 - 2003/2004 - www.pragma-ade.com
usage : texmfstart [switches] filename [optional arguments]
switches : --verbose --report --browser --direct --execute --locate --program --file --page --arguments --make --lmake --wmake
example : texmfstart pstopdf.rb cow.eps texmfstart --locate examplex.rb texmfstart --execute examplex.rb texmfstart --browser examplap.pdf texmfstart showcase.pdf texmfstart --page=2 --file=showcase.pdf texmfstart --program=yourtex yourscript.pl arg-1 arg-2 texmfstart --direct xsltproc kpse:somefile.xsl somefile.xml texmfstart bin:xsltproc kpse:somefile.xsl somefile.xml texmfstart --iftouched=normal,lowres downsample.rb normal lowres
Hans
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