Taco, Is this also true about: http://www.pragma-ade.com/context/install/mswincontext.zip On Aug 2, 2006, at 12:28 PM, Taco Hoekwater wrote:
David Arnold wrote:
All,
Does anyone know if cdwincontext works with Windows98?
No, it doesn't work. Command.com is not smart enough to process setuptex.bat
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David Arnold wrote:
Taco,
Is this also true about:
Same batch file, so yes. It would be possible to convert the batch file into a perl or ruby scripts plus a one-line batch that starts the interpreter + script, but not being on windows except in very abnormal cases, I am personally not very likely to do that. Cheers, Taco
Taco Hoekwater wrote:
David Arnold wrote:
Taco,
Is this also true about:
Same batch file, so yes.
It would be possible to convert the batch file into a perl or ruby scripts plus a one-line batch that starts the interpreter + script, but not being on windows except in very abnormal cases, I am personally not very likely to do that.
much has to do with the size of the environment which is small under win98 in principle temfstart --tree=... texexec should be able to do the job but i have no win98 machine around any more Hans ----------------------------------------------------------------- Hans Hagen | PRAGMA ADE Ridderstraat 27 | 8061 GH Hasselt | The Netherlands tel: 038 477 53 69 | fax: 038 477 53 74 | www.pragma-ade.com | www.pragma-pod.nl -----------------------------------------------------------------
On 8/2/06, Taco Hoekwater wrote:
David Arnold wrote:
Taco,
Is this also true about:
Same batch file, so yes.
It would be possible to convert the batch file into a perl or ruby scripts plus a one-line batch that starts the interpreter + script, but not being on windows except in very abnormal cases
... and even in that abnormal cases Taco somehow manages to get Windows 98 installed instead of XP ;)
I am personally not very likely to do that.
Some time ago I was experimenting with ruby a bit: I tried to set some environmental variables, so that MikTeX could gain some functionality (MikTeX doesn't use that batch file and consequently "texexec --make --all", "ctxtools --update", ... don't work because scripts don't know where to place the files). But the problem was that changes to environmental variables were seen only locally, so it didn't make any sense at all. Do you indeed have any ideas how to set environmental variables inside of a ruby script, so that they would be seen from outside? Because that would solve a whole lot of problems in MikTeX. Saying that, something else came to my mind. Has anyone tried running ConTeXt on MikTeX on Windows 98? That one doesn't need any batch files. I don't know what will happen to files longer than 8 characters, but the rest might work. Mojca
Mojca Miklavec wrote:
... and even in that abnormal cases Taco somehow manages to get Windows 98 installed instead of XP ;)
Yeah, well, that was not a really smart move. ;-)
But the problem was that changes to environmental variables were seen only locally, so it didn't make any sense at all. Do you indeed have any ideas how to set environmental variables inside of a ruby script, so that they would be seen from outside? Because that would solve a whole lot of problems in MikTeX.
The traditional trick is to start a new shell/command window inside your script (last line). On Windows, I am more or less certain that you can also store stuff in the registry is a way that is permanent. Greetings, Taco
David Arnold wrote:
All,
Does anyone know if cdwincontext works with Windows98?
dunno, but win98 is a bit outdated anyway .. Hans ----------------------------------------------------------------- Hans Hagen | PRAGMA ADE Ridderstraat 27 | 8061 GH Hasselt | The Netherlands tel: 038 477 53 69 | fax: 038 477 53 74 | www.pragma-ade.com | www.pragma-pod.nl -----------------------------------------------------------------
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