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Date: Thu, 26 May 2011 15:20:43 -0400
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On 5/26/2011 3:16 PM, Ryan Johnson wrote:
> On 26/05/2011 2:33 PM, Lee Rothstein wrote:
>> I have never been able to get the Tex stuff to work. I've never
>> even been able to install it successfully.
>>
>> I admit it, I'm a dolt.
>>
>> Anybody have the "magic beans" on this?
>>
>> I've tried installing and reinstalling. Never can get it to work.
> As it happens, I'm running tetex as we speak. It's never been a problem
> for me, except the time I had MikTex in my cygwin path and the two
> fought. I don't know anything about ec-fonts or jadetex, though. Here
> are the cygwin packages I have installed:
>
> tetex                   3.0.0-3
> tetex-base              3.0.0-3
> tetex-bin               3.0.0-3
> tetex-extra             3.0.0-3
> tetex-tiny              3.0.0-3
>
>> Problem reports:       http://cygwin.com/problems.html
> You didn't say what OS or version of cygwin you're running, but assuming
> it's 1.7 you might try a fresh install to, say, c:\cygwin-tex, which
> includes only the base packages and tetex. It won't harm your existing
> install in any way, and you should be able to use the saved packages
> from previous downloads rather than having to download again.
>
> If that works you probably have a corrupted cygwin installation (which
> would make sense given all the strange errors you mention); if it
> doesn't work then something really weird is going on.

Another alternative if the OP wants a modern TeX system is TeX Live 
(http://www.tug.org/texlive/).  It supports Cygwin OOTB.

Ken

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