From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.comp.tex.context/4153 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Marc van Dongen Newsgroups: gmane.comp.tex.context Subject: Re: metapost not invoked? mpgraph.1 not created Date: Tue, 20 Feb 2001 15:58:06 +0000 Sender: owner-ntg-context@let.uu.nl Message-ID: <20010220155806.B15049@cs.ucc.ie> References: <3.0.6.32.20010220125344.01cc87b0@server-1> NNTP-Posting-Host: coloc-standby.netfonds.no Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1035394844 23356 80.91.224.250 (23 Oct 2002 17:40:44 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 23 Oct 2002 17:40:44 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Hans Hagen , Patrick Gundlach , ConTeXt Original-To: Ed L Cashin In-Reply-To: ; from ecashin@coe.uga.edu on Tue, Feb 20, 2001 at 10:42:35AM -0500 Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.comp.tex.context:4153 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.comp.tex.context:4153 Ed L Cashin (ecashin@coe.uga.edu) wrote: : Hans Hagen 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 -- Marc van Dongen, CS Dept | phone: +353 21 4903578 University College Cork, NUIC | Fax: +353 21 4903113 College Road, Cork, Ireland | Email: dongen@cs.ucc.ie