Texexec changing directories

Texexec changing directories

[David Arnold]

All,

I need some help with an annoying feature that has cropped up after an
update of Miktex and Context.

D:\NSFGRANT\MultiCalc\VecMat>texexec --version

 TeXExec 3.2 - ConTeXt / PRAGMA ADE 1997-2003


        total run time : 0 seconds

F:\PuTTY>

Note how the drive letter has changed. This is not just a minor annoyance,
because if I have a "make" file such as make.bat defined by

texexec --pdf --mode=screen --suffix="-s" Context-VecMat
texexec --pdf --mode=letter --suffix="-p" Context-VecMat
texexec --pdf --mode=screen --suffix="-s" Context-VecMat
texexec --pdf --mode=letter --suffix="-p" Context-VecMat

After the first run, the process stops because it can no longer find
Context-VecMat on the f: partition.

Help!

Re: Texexec changing directories

[Matthew Huggett]

David Arnold wrote:

>All,
>
>I need some help with an annoying feature that has cropped up after an
>update of Miktex and Context.
>
>  
>
I don't want to knock MikTeX, but recently, I've had a whole lot less 
trouble buy running fpTeX.  The download is a lot slower though.

Re: Texexec changing directories

[Giuseppe Bilotta]

Sunday, August 24, 2003 David Arnold wrote:

DA> All,

DA> I need some help with an annoying feature that has cropped up after an
DA> update of Miktex and Context.

DA> D:\NSFGRANT\MultiCalc\VecMat>texexec --version

DA>  TeXExec 3.2 - ConTeXt / PRAGMA ADE 1997-2003


DA>         total run time : 0 seconds

DA> F:\PuTTY>

DA> Note how the drive letter has changed.

I never had this problem. Are you using MiKTeX's texexec, or
the standalone package from www.pragma-ade.com?

-- 
Giuseppe "Oblomov" Bilotta

Re: Texexec changing directories

[Hans Hagen]

At 15:46 23/08/2003 -0700, you wrote:

>Note how the drive letter has changed. This is not just a minor annoyance,
>because if I have a "make" file such as make.bat defined by
>
>texexec --pdf --mode=screen --suffix="-s" Context-VecMat
>texexec --pdf --mode=letter --suffix="-p" Context-VecMat
>texexec --pdf --mode=screen --suffix="-s" Context-VecMat
>texexec --pdf --mode=letter --suffix="-p" Context-VecMat
>
>After the first run, the process stops because it can no longer find
>Context-VecMat on the f: partition.

can you fetch version 3.3 from the site so that we are in sync?

there only time when context (when needed) does a change dir (and back) is 
when it generates formats so ...

is there something funny in your path?

Hans

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Re: Texexec changing directories

[David Arnold]

Hans,

My path:

C:\WINDOWS\DESKTOP>path
PATH=F:\NLIB;F:\MIKTEX\MIKTEX\BIN;C:\GS\GS7.04\BIN;C:\GS\GS7.04\LIB;F:\MIKTE
X\CO
NTEXT\PERLTK;C:\PERL\BIN;C:\WINDOWS;C:\WINDOWS;C:\WINDOWS\COMMAND;C:\YANDY\Y
ANDY
TEX\;E:\MATLAB6P1\BIN\WIN32;C:\EMACS\BIN;;C:\GHOSTGUM\GSVIEW\;;F:\MSYS\1.0\M
INGW
\BIN;F:\IMAGINE\BIN;;E:\J2SDK1.4.0_02\BIN;E:\MATLAB6P5\BIN\WIN32;F:\SSHSEC~1

However, these are the only instances of texexec.pl and texexec.ini and
texexec.exe on my system, as I removed the versions from miktex\miktex\bin.

F:\miktex\context\perltk>dir texexec*

 Volume in drive F is MICRON
 Volume Serial Number is 075D-1CFB
 Directory of F:\miktex\context\perltk

TEXEXEC  PL         96,117  07-21-03 10:14p texexec.pl
TEXEXEC  RME         5,229  01-31-03 10:05a texexec.rme
TEXEXE~1 INI         5,202  07-29-03 10:47p texexec.ini~
TEXEXEC  INI         5,209  07-29-03 10:57p texexec.ini
TEXEXEC  EXE        20,480  07-13-01 12:06p texexec.exe



At 11:26 PM 8/24/03 +0200, you wrote:
>At 15:46 23/08/2003 -0700, you wrote:
>
>>Note how the drive letter has changed. This is not just a minor annoyance,
>>because if I have a "make" file such as make.bat defined by
>>
>>texexec --pdf --mode=screen --suffix="-s" Context-VecMat
>>texexec --pdf --mode=letter --suffix="-p" Context-VecMat
>>texexec --pdf --mode=screen --suffix="-s" Context-VecMat
>>texexec --pdf --mode=letter --suffix="-p" Context-VecMat
>>
>>After the first run, the process stops because it can no longer find
>>Context-VecMat on the f: partition.
>
>can you fetch version 3.3 from the site so that we are in sync?
>
>there only time when context (when needed) does a change dir (and back) is 
>when it generates formats so ...
>
>is there something funny in your path?
>
>Hans
>
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Re: Texexec changing directories

[David Arnold]

Giuseppe,

The standalone.

At 11:59 AM 8/24/03 +0200, you wrote:
>Sunday, August 24, 2003 David Arnold wrote:
>
>DA> All,
>
>DA> I need some help with an annoying feature that has cropped up after an
>DA> update of Miktex and Context.
>
>DA> D:\NSFGRANT\MultiCalc\VecMat>texexec --version
>
>DA>  TeXExec 3.2 - ConTeXt / PRAGMA ADE 1997-2003
>
>
>DA>         total run time : 0 seconds
>
>DA> F:\PuTTY>
>
>DA> Note how the drive letter has changed.
>
>I never had this problem. Are you using MiKTeX's texexec, or
>the standalone package from www.pragma-ade.com?
>
>-- 
>Giuseppe "Oblomov" Bilotta
>
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Re: Texexec changing directories

[David Arnold]

Hans,

I've updated to the latest beta but my problem with texexec has not changed.

C:\>texexec --version

 TeXExec 3.3 - ConTeXt / PRAGMA ADE 1997-2003


        total run time : 1 seconds

F:\>

It is still changing the partition.

My path statement again:

F:\>path
PATH=F:\NLIB;F:\MIKTEX\MIKTEX\BIN;C:\GS\GS7.04\BIN;C:\GS\GS7.04\LIB;F:\MIKTE
X\CO
NTEXT\PERLTK;C:\PERL\BIN;C:\WINDOWS;C:\WINDOWS;C:\WINDOWS\COMMAND;C:\YANDY\Y
ANDY
TEX\;E:\MATLAB6P1\BIN\WIN32;C:\EMACS\BIN;;C:\GHOSTGUM\GSVIEW\;;F:\MSYS\1.0\M
INGW
\BIN;F:\IMAGINE\BIN;;E:\J2SDK1.4.0_02\BIN;E:\MATLAB6P5\BIN\WIN32;F:\SSHSEC~1

One further interesting note is this: If I change to the C: drive with C:,
then run texexec --make --alone, the format files are made on the F
partition, then when finished, my prompt indicates I am on the F partition.
The I have to move the format files manually from F:\ to the proper place
in localtexmf.


At 11:26 PM 8/24/03 +0200, you wrote:
>At 15:46 23/08/2003 -0700, you wrote:
>
>>Note how the drive letter has changed. This is not just a minor annoyance,
>>because if I have a "make" file such as make.bat defined by
>>
>>texexec --pdf --mode=screen --suffix="-s" Context-VecMat
>>texexec --pdf --mode=letter --suffix="-p" Context-VecMat
>>texexec --pdf --mode=screen --suffix="-s" Context-VecMat
>>texexec --pdf --mode=letter --suffix="-p" Context-VecMat
>>
>>After the first run, the process stops because it can no longer find
>>Context-VecMat on the f: partition.
>
>can you fetch version 3.3 from the site so that we are in sync?
>
>there only time when context (when needed) does a change dir (and back) is 
>when it generates formats so ...
>
>is there something funny in your path?
>
>Hans
>
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