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Date: Mon, 22 Aug 2005 11:15:42 -0400 (EDT)
From: Igor Pechtchanski <pechtcha AT cs DOT nyu DOT edu>
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Subject: Re: Latex in Cygwin lost?
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On Mon, 22 Aug 2005, xzou wrote:

> Dear Cygwin folks,
>
> I installed Cygwin/X in Feb, 2005, and it has been working very well.
> This passed weekend I wad trying add the "xfig", and after downloading
> and reinstalling, yes I have xfig now. However, the "latex"  and "tex"
> do not work any more, but "amstex" still works.
> When I  run latex, I got the following message:
>
> $ latex meta.tex
> This is pdfeTeXk, Version 3.141592-1.21a-2.2 (Web2C 7.5.4)
>  file:line:error style messages enabled.
>  %&-line parsing enabled.
> kpathsea: Running mktexfmt latex.fmt
> tcfmgr: config file `tcfmgr.map' (usually in $TEXMFMAIN/texconfig) not found.
> fmtutil: config file `fmtutil.cnf' not found.
> I can't find the format file `latex.fmt'!
> ------------------------------------------------------------
> and when I run "tex" I got the following:
>
> $ tex ams-00.tex
> This is TeXk, Version 3.141592 (Web2C 7.5.4)
>  file:line:error style messages enabled.
>  %&-line parsing enabled.
> kpathsea: Running mktexfmt tex.fmt
> tcfmgr: config file `tcfmgr.map' (usually in $TEXMFMAIN/texconfig) not found.
> fmtutil: config file `fmtutil.cnf' not found.
> I can't find the format file `tex.fmt'!
> ------------------------
>
> I am a mathematician, and use latex a lot. Does anybody have any
> suggestion/idea in solving this problem?
>
> Many thanks
>
> Xingfu Zou, University of Western Ontario (Canada)

What does "cygcheck -cv tetex tetex-base tetex-bin tetex-tiny tetex-extra"
show?
	Igor
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