Re: texmfstart.exe vs. texmfstart.rb

[Hans Hagen <pragma@wxs.nl>]

Hooman Javidnia wrote:
> Hi Hans and Taco,
>
> Thanks to all your guidance and a lot of trial and error, now I have a
> SciTE under windwos XP which works. There is one strange feature though. I
> had to put the .exe version of texmfstart into the scripts ruby scripts
> folder so that my files get compiled. SciTE can't understand that
> texmfstart.rb is there and ruby is installed.
>
> Before I copy the .exe version to this directory, I could run all
> texmfstart commands from the command line without any problem, but from
> within SciTE the commands won't run. What is the difference between the
> two versions? And why SciTE can't understand that ruby scripts are in
> system path and run them
>   
you need to add ruby etc to the path at the aouter level; (my computer, right mouse, properties, advanced, environment variables) 

Hans 


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