On Tue, 18 Apr 2006, David Arnold wrote:

All,

A colleague of mine did an update of his miktex. Now his context won't work with this error:

TeXExec 5.4.3 - ConTeXt / PRAGMA ADE 1997-2005

warning : texexec.ini not found, try 'texexec --verbose'

TeXExec 5.4.3 - ConTeXt / PRAGMA ADE 1997-2005

current path : C:/Book/IntAlgText/trunk/chapter3 locating ini file : kpsewhiching texexec.ini on scripts locating ini file : kpsewhiching texexec.ini elsewhere locating ini file : kpsewhiching texexec.rme on scripts locating ini file : kpsewhiching texexec.rme elsewhere locating ini file : not found by kpsewhich locating ini file : not found by searching locating ini file : no environment variable set locating ini file : not found in own path warning : texexec.ini not found, did you read 'texexec.rme'?

This was working before the Miktex update. Miktex has a texexec.exe in a bin/ file. That's the one being used, but we cannot find any instance of texexec.ini in the miktex tree. I don't think Miktex uses the ini file.

Anyone know what's going on here?

No idea. I was using Miktex context for some time, but found it too cumbersome to work with. For context, miktex update is too slow. There is no particular advantage of using miktex for context. I have two parallel trees here, one for miktex and one for context and everything works fine. If hard disk space is not an issue and you do not mind installing ruby, you can instal the windows installation from pragma in a different (from Miktex texmf and localtexmf trees) directory. Use setuptex.bat to add the pragma binaries to the path only when you need them. This way, you can keep on using latex from miktex and can context from pragma. Aditya -- Aditya Mahajan, EECS Systems, University of Michigan http://www.eecs.umich.edu/~adityam || Ph: 7342624008