Re[2]: New Beta

[Hans Hagen <pragma@wxs.nl>]

At 04:14 PM 8/24/2001 +0200, Giuseppe Bilotta wrote:

>OB> I have found that this is not texexec but solely MiKTeX problem, the 
>problem
>OB> is that it seems that MiKTeX accept only restricted lenght of its 
>arguments and
>OB> cuts off the rest of argument for each of arguments separately, so if your
>OB> TeXFormatPath contains f:/LocalTeXMF/miktex/fmt, then command line 
>argument
>OB> --undump=f:/LocalTeXMF/miktex/fmt/cont-en are cut after /miktex, so 
>TeX think
>OB> you wish to use miktex.efmt, not cont-en.efmt. Once you changed 
>--undump= to &,
>OB> command line are shorter and ain't cut off. I don't know whether it's 
>fixed in
>OB> MiKTeX 2.1.
>
>Is it necessary to use TeXFormatPath? I let MiKTeX find the corred
>path (or rather put the format files in the default path ...)

it depends on how many texmf trees you use: here i have a couple -)

but, you can of course let miktex sort things out since on windows there is 
less chance on write permission problems

Hans
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