Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help AT cygwin DOT com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner AT cygwin DOT com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Message-ID: X-Originating-Email: [mzap80 AT hotmail DOT com] X-Sender: mzap80 AT hotmail DOT com From: "m. z." To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Subject: RE: tetex 3.0.0-3 format file problem Date: Wed, 18 May 2005 17:31:23 +0000 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1; format=flowed X-OriginalArrivalTime: 18 May 2005 17:31:23.0367 (UTC) FILETIME=[69582770:01C55BCF] X-IsSubscribed: yes In the mail below, I see that still with version 3.0.0-3, which still I have not installed because I failed both with 3.0.0-1 and 3.0.0-2, when one is doing "latex filename.tex", in the line below the output is "pdfeTeX..." With the previous version of tetex (2.something) this was not happening. Is this the source of the problems with tetex 3.0.0-x ? As far as I now latex is latex, producing a .dvi, which will be convertex in .ps by dvips. Why doing "latex" is invoking now pdf format ? From: "Mcdougall, Robert A." To: Date: Mon, 16 May 2005 17:59:45 -0500 Subject: 1.5.16 tetex 3.0.0-3 format file problem -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- With the latest tetex build, I can't get *tex to use its format files: 516$ latex aleph.tex This is pdfeTeXk, Version 3.141592-1.21a-2.2 (Web2C 7.5.4) file:line:error style messages enabled. %&-line parsing enabled. ---! /cygdrive/c/home/mcdougar/.texmf/var/web2c/latex.fmt was written by tex (Fatal format file error; I'm stymied) 517$ kpsewhich latex.fmt /cygdrive/c/home/mcdougar/.texmf/var/web2c/latex.fmt 518$ ls -l /cygdrive/c/home/mcdougar/.texmf/var/web2c/latex.fmt -rw-r--r-- 1 mcdougar mkgroup-l-d 759091 May 16 16:05 /cygdrive/c/home/mcdougar /.texmf/var/web2c/latex.fmt 519$ cygcheck -s -v -r >cygcheck.out cygcheck: dump_sysinfo: GetVolumeInformation() failed: 5 `cygcheck` output attacked. -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/