Re: installing Context

["Erik Frambach" <E.H.M.Frambach@eco.rug.nl>]

> Further investigation suggests that the version of ActiveState Perl that I
> am using (dating back to August 1999) does not seem to read the PATH
> environment. The following in autoexec.bat should work, but doesn't on my
> PC:
> 
> SET PATH=%PATH%;C:\TEXMF\CONTEXT\CONFIG;C:\TEXMF\CONTEXT\PERLTK
> SET PATH=%PATH%;C:\TEXMF\MIKTEX\BIN;C:\PERL\BIN
> 
> ie perl texexec.pl --make en de produces the message
> 
> Can't open perl script "texexec.pl": No such file or directory

Perl *is* found using the PATH here. It's Perl itself that complains
that it can't find the file texexec.pl. If you store texexec.pl
somewhere on the PATH, you can run it like this:

perl -S texexec.pl

-S means that Perl will look for the script along the PATH.

Greetings,
Erik