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Date: Thu, 11 Oct 2001 19:05:03 +0200
From: 520066587150-0001 AT t-online DOT de (Jerome BENOIT)
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Subject: Re: texconfig rehash not working on Win98
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"Quoss, Clemens" wrote:
> 
> Hello,
> 
> I installed tetex both on a WinNT and a Win98 machine running Cygwin.
> 
> I first installed the tetex texmf tree to /usr/share/texmf/, then
> re-installed
> the tetex package.
> 
> On both machines the only change I did was to change the TEXMFMAIN
> var in the texmf.cnf file to /usr/share/texmf/.
> 
> Then I did run 'texconfig confall', 'texconfig rehash' and 'texconfig init'
> on both machines. No obvious errors. But when I try to create the
> small2e.dvi file, I get the message 'latex.fmt not found' on the Win98
> machine. On WinNT, everything works fine.
> 
> But latex.fmt resides on both machines in /usr/share/texmf/web2c/.
> 
> So - my question is: Is there any difference between Win98 and WinNT
> with regard to tetex?

Of course NOT !

I am working under Win98, and allis fine:
> 
> One hint might be that on Win98 the ls-R file is not being re-created using
> 'texconfig rehash'. Whereas on WinNT mktexlsr prints two lines like
> 
> mktexlsr: file /usr/share/texmf/ls-R is being recreated...
> mktexlsr: Done.
> 
> on Win98 I only get the latter line and ls-R is still from Feb, 1st 2000.
> 

Try the following:
remove all `ls-R' files and rehash again.

Please let me know that is sufficient to fix your trouble.

Good TeXing,
Jerome BENOIT



> TIA
> 
> Bye
> 
> Clemens Quoss
> 
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