From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.comp.tex.context/24777 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Hans Hagen Newsgroups: gmane.comp.tex.context Subject: Re: running ConTeXt from the new DVD Date: Tue, 27 Dec 2005 20:33:14 +0100 Message-ID: <43B196FA.40805@wxs.nl> References: <6faad9f00512271009hc3e82f1i8c3aea5f2fce34ba@mail.gmail.com> Reply-To: mailing list for ConTeXt users NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1135712108 7884 80.91.229.2 (27 Dec 2005 19:35:08 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 27 Dec 2005 19:35:08 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: ntg-context-bounces@ntg.nl Tue Dec 27 20:35:05 2005 Return-path: Envelope-to: gctc-ntg-context-518@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from ronja.vet.uu.nl ([131.211.172.88] helo=ronja.ntg.nl) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1ErKb8-0006yp-8w for gctc-ntg-context-518@m.gmane.org; Tue, 27 Dec 2005 20:35:02 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id E2201127D1; Tue, 27 Dec 2005 20:35:01 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from ronja.ntg.nl ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (smtp.ntg.nl [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with LMTP id 21827-02; Tue, 27 Dec 2005 20:35:01 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from ronja.vet.uu.nl (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id D77B1127E2; Tue, 27 Dec 2005 20:33:15 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id F0ED1127E2 for ; Tue, 27 Dec 2005 20:33:13 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from ronja.ntg.nl ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (smtp.ntg.nl [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with LMTP id 21633-08-2 for ; Tue, 27 Dec 2005 20:33:13 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from mail.pragma-ade.net (dsl-212-84-128-085.solcon.nl [212.84.128.85]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with SMTP id E2E02127D1 for ; Tue, 27 Dec 2005 20:33:12 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from [10.100.1.102] (unverified [10.100.1.102]) by controller-1 (SurgeMail 3.5b3) with ESMTP id 9383 for ; Tue, 27 Dec 2005 20:41:18 +0300 User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.7 (Windows/20050923) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en Original-To: mailing list for ConTeXt users In-Reply-To: <6faad9f00512271009hc3e82f1i8c3aea5f2fce34ba@mail.gmail.com> X-Server: High Performance Mail Server - http://surgemail.com r=-274017400 X-Authenticated-User: hagen@controller-1 X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at ntg.nl X-BeenThere: ntg-context@ntg.nl X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: mailing list for ConTeXt users List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: ntg-context-bounces@ntg.nl Errors-To: ntg-context-bounces@ntg.nl X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at ntg.nl Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.comp.tex.context:24777 Archived-At: Mojca Miklavec wrote: >Hello, > >I just got the new DVD, TeX Collection 2005, tried to run cdemo.bat >and to compile one of the sample documents, but: > > > >>texmfstart newtexexec.rb --autopdf --pdf demo-tex.tex >> >> >TeXExec | processing document 'demo-tex.tex' >TeXExec | provide ctx file >TeXExec | tex processing method: context >TeXExec | TeX run 1 >TeXExec | tex engine: pdfetex >TeXExec | tex format: cont-en >TeXExec | progname: context >This is pdfeTeX, Version 3.141592-1.30.3-2.2 (Web2c 7.5.5) > \write18 enabled. >I can't find the format file `pdfetex.fmt'! >pdfetex: unrecognized option `--alias=context' >pdfetex: unrecognized option `--undump=cont-en' >TeXExec | runtime: 3.315 > > >>Exit code: 0 >> >> > >---------------------------------------------------------------- > >texexec --make --all >cannot be executed since the CD is not writable. Can this be overcome >anyhow, is there a problem specific to my PC or is this distribution >on DVD unusable as such? > >(I often have similar "format missing" problems when I update MikTeX >but then the problem disappers when I reboot the computer - not that I >understand why since I refresh the database and remake all the formats >each time anyway.) > > cdemo is using the minimal but it looks like miktex is loaded and not the minimal binary ... there was a fix for this recently but that will not work when running from cd Hans