Am Tue, 30 Sep 2008 22:38:38 -0700 schrieb David Arnold:
I saw your note on blog.miktex.org: If you still want to run ConTeXt on MikTeX while it has been removed, you may create a file texmfstart.bat in C:\Program Files\MiKTeX 2.7 \miktex\bin with the content: @echo off ruby "C:\Program Files\MiKTeX 2.7\scripts\context\ruby \texmfstart.rb" "%*" and extract www.pragma-ade.com/context/current/cont-tmf.zip into C: \Program Files\MiKTeX 2.7. Then, update filename database and generate formats, and everything should work again.
I followed this advice, installed texmfstart.bat, unzipped cont- tmf.zip properly, updated the filename database, then got stuck. At the dos prompt:
$ texmfstart --help Worked just fine. However, $ texmfstart texexec --help Did not work.
Can you please try what happens if you install MikTeX in some folder with no spaces in base path?
I'll give your idea of no spaces a try tomorrow. Meanwhile if you can think of anything less drastic, as I have to do this on 20 different machines, ....
You could try to unzip cont-tmf.zip in a separate root without spaces. E.g. C:\contextfiles\... Then add C:\contextfiles as a new root. -- Ulrike Fischer