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Subject: Re: Installation hangs because asks for input from terminal (Attn: tetex maintainer, setup maintainer)
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From: Jan Nieuwenhuizen <janneke AT gnu DOT org>
Organization: Jan at Appel
Date: Mon, 13 Sep 2004 18:49:02 +0200
In-Reply-To: <Pine.GSO.4.61.0409101300420.5749@slinky.cs.nyu.edu> (Igor Pechtchanski's message of "Fri, 10 Sep 2004 13:05:43 -0400 (EDT)")
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Igor Pechtchanski writes:

>> I found that it was a conflict with my existing fpTeX installation
>> (fpTeX is a TeTeX port to Windows) that defined an environment
>> variable TEXMFCNF to one of Windows directories.

I feel that setup.exe should not use an unclean environment.

>> The script post-texmf.sh diagnosted that and asked for user's
>> reaction.

Actually, it is texconfig which does that.

Thanks for reporting this.

Jan.

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