Re: installing Context

[Christopher G D Tipper <ctipper@hol.gr>]

Christopher G D Tipper wrote:

> On Windows 98, the following command is fool proof with ActiveState Perl
>
> c:\perl\bin\perl texexec.pl --make en de

That 'fool-proof' (!) command should have been:

C:\Perl\Bin\perl.exe C:\texmf\context\perltk\texexec.pl --make en de

This can be made into a Shortcut for future use.

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

Hope this is helpful,
Christopher

Grzegorz Sapijaszko wrote:

> Dnia 2 Feb 00, Peter.Andree@t-online.de pisal:
>
> > I'm completely new in Context. That's the reason I have trouble with
> > installing it. I unzipped the files as described in the documentation.
> > But I have no experience with PERL.
>
> Do you have perl installed? If not, you can find a version for
> Windows at www.activestate.com.
>
> If you have perl on your system, try, in perltk directory,
>
> perl texexec.pl --make en de
>
> Gruesse,
> Grzesiek

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