Re: metapost not invoked? mpgraph.1 not created

[Marc van Dongen <dongen@cs.ucc.ie>]

Ed L Cashin (ecashin@coe.uga.edu) wrote:

: Hans Hagen <pragma@wxs.nl> writes:
: 
: > Are there unix people out there (i know there are) ? 

Sorry Hans, I didn't spot your original query.

: The UN*X PATH variable works similarily to the DOS PATH variable, so

Not quite. In DOS it is by default made known to subprocesses.
In UNIX you have to explicitly say it should by uttering some
magic spell like:

PATH=/abra/ka/dabra:/abra/kebab/ra
eport PATH

or 

export PATH=/abra/ka/dabra:/abra/kebab/ra

if you're using bash or sh

or

setenv PATH /abra/ka/dabra:/abra/kebab/ra

if you're using (tc)sh

: although I am a unix person out here, I don't have any special
: insight.  (Of course, it's not necessary for mptopdf or the format
: file to be literally in the PATH.)

Even if

echo $PATH
sez
/abra/ka/dabra:/abra/kebab/ra

it may well be that because it is not exported its value may be
/usr/local/bin

Again, I missed Hans' original query, so I don't know if this
is relevant.

Regards,

Marc
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