The problem has been solved. It turned out Ruby is installed twice on my computer. One is the regular download from www.ruby-lang.org, the other one came with cygwin (which I wasn't aware of). The cygwin path string was before the c:\ruby path string. When I moved the c:\ruby path before the cygwin path Context worked correctly.  

And this took me a full day of hacking. Sigh.

Thanks for all your help.

Harrie.

On Mon, Jul 13, 2009 at 10:22 AM, Hans Hagen <pragma@wxs.nl> wrote:
Harrie Frericks wrote:
Problem 2 (not-solved)
I'm getting the infamous error: I can't find the format file
`cont-en.fmt'!
 I searched this list and tried texexec --make --all  This doesn't solve
the
problem. The problem is located in this part of the output:

did you run 'setuptex' in the tex path first?

Hans


Yes, I did. It makes no difference.


the ./pdftex suggests that your env vars are not set up; on unix make sure that you run

. setuptex

(with period)


Hans

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