Dear listers, Forgive me for my beginner's question again. As in the list(ntg-context Digest, Vol 23, Issue 28), I did the following: cp /usr/local/teTeX/share/texmf.local/scripts/context/ruby/ texmfstart.rb /usr/local/teTeX/bin/powerpc-apple-darwin-current/ texmfstart chmod 755 /usr/local/teTeX/bin/powerpc-apple-darwin-current/texmfstart After this, I issued texmfstart texexec --make --xetex en or texmfstart texexec file.tex, but there is no action at all. I also issued the following command and got the output like this. ************************************** input: texmfstart --verbose texexec output: texmfstart version 1.8.6 expanding 'texexec' to 'texexec.rb' locating 'texexec.rb' in current path '.' locating 'texexec.rb' in caller path '/usr/local/teTeX/bin/powerpc- apple-darwin-current' using kpse binary unable to locate base/kpseremote|base/kpsedirect|base/kpsefast on library paths: /usr/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8 /usr/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/powerpc-darwin8.0 /usr/lib/ruby/site_ruby /usr/lib/ruby/1.8 /usr/lib/ruby/1.8/powerpc-darwin8.0 . /usr/local/teTeX/bin/powerpc-apple-darwin-current /usr/local/teTeX/bin/lib /usr/local/teTeX/bin/powerpc-apple-darwin-current/texmfstart-lib /usr/local/teTeX/texmf-local/scripts/context/ruby /usr/local/teTeX/texmf/scripts/context/ruby an option is to point the RUBYLIB variable to <texmf-local or texmf>/scripts/context/ruby or to copy <texmf-local or texmf>/scripts/context/ruby/base/kpse* (including the kpse subpath) to e.g. /usr/local/teTeX/bin/powerpc-apple-darwin-current/../lib/texmfstart/ or to use a stub instead fatal error unable to locate program *************************** Would you please tell me how to make texstart working? Thank you for reading. Best regards, Dalyoung