At 21:22 21/04/2003 +0800, you wrote:

Hi, I just start using conTeXt for a week, I found this problem when i try to compile a *.tex file. my file look like this:

\usemodule[pre-03] \starttext hello \stoptext

compile with texexec --pdf filename.tex and I saw this :

..... This is MetaPost, Version 0.641 (Web2C 7.3.1) (Fatal mem file error; I'm stymied) .....

This error message exist as long as there is \usemodule[pre-xx] with xx is one of 01-06...etc

I use tetex-1.0.7-57 with RedHat8.0,

maybe you should regenerate the metapost formats (mpost, metafun, ...) fmtutil ..... or texexec --make metafun (make sure that you got the mem files and that they end up on the right place, in some web2c path) Hans ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Hans Hagen | PRAGMA ADE | pragma@wxs.nl Ridderstraat 27 | 8061 GH Hasselt | The Netherlands tel: +31 (0)38 477 53 69 | fax: +31 (0)38 477 53 74 | www.pragma-ade.com ------------------------------------------------------------------------- information: http://www.pragma-ade.com/roadmap.pdf documentation: http://www.pragma-ade.com/showcase.pdf -------------------------------------------------------------------------