Re[3]: No MP graphics after installation under MikTeX

[Giuseppe Bilotta <gip.bilotta@iol.it>]

Friday, June 6, 2003 Sytse Knypstra wrote:


SK>> But I noticed the warning (not in the log-file):
>>SK> Unknown command "mpost"
>>
>>SK> Does this give a clue to what is wrong?
>>
>>Yes, you either don't have metapost installed or it's not in
>>the path.

SK> I found a file mpost.exe (only 4 kb) in
SK> c:\texmf\miktex\bin. Is this 
SK> sufficient evidence that metapost was installed?

Uhm. It should be.

SK> Isn't metapost installed when installing MikTeX?

I think it's only installed in some cases (e.g. not with the
"Small" package)

SK> This directory c:\texmf\miktex\bin is in the MS-DOS path.

SK> I still get the warning: Unknown command "mpost"

Can you please try the following? Open an MS-DOS prompt, and
(making sure you're not in c:\texmf\miktex\bin but in any other
directory) please try to run

mpost --version

and report what happens.

-- 
Giuseppe "Oblomov" Bilotta