From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.comp.tex.context/6053 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Hans Hagen Newsgroups: gmane.comp.tex.context Subject: Re: Fatal format file error; I'm stymied Date: Thu, 08 Nov 2001 18:57:12 +0100 Sender: owner-ntg-context@let.uu.nl Message-ID: <5.1.0.14.1.20011108185623.031459a8@server-1> References: <5.1.0.14.1.20011108160724.03e9a9a0@server-1> NNTP-Posting-Host: coloc-standby.netfonds.no Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format=flowed X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1035396603 6960 80.91.224.250 (23 Oct 2002 18:10:03 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 23 Oct 2002 18:10:03 +0000 (UTC) Cc: ntg-context@ntg.nl Original-To: Lukas Kubin In-Reply-To: Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.comp.tex.context:6053 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.comp.tex.context:6053 At 04:46 PM 11/8/2001 +0100, you wrote: > > At 03:15 PM 11/8/2001 +0100, Lukas Kubin wrote: > > >i checked the web2c directory and it contains cont-en.efmt elatex.efmt > > >etex.efmt pdfelatex.efmt and pdfetex.efmt files (among others, of > > >course). I have no other .efmt files in the tetex tree. > > > > > >this what I've done before: I installed the tetex 1.0 binaries (yes it's > > >old but I'm having problems compiling the new sources on tru64 unix). The > > >ConTeXt in that version is quite old, so I downloaded and unzipped in the > > >texmf tree the current beta. Then: texconfig confall, I turned cont-en on > > >in the texconfig formats, texhash, texexec --make en. Then you suggested > > >texexec --make --alone en nl , so I tried but no change when try texexec > > >anyfile.tex > > > > did you also move the new texexec (>=2.4) to the right place? > >yes, I did. >now I posted a new mail to the list. I wrote there now I >started again with whole the installation. I deleted the tetex directory >and installed it again. Then I tried to run the old context 1.9 and it >resulted into the same error. >thank you for your patience with me. can you run texexec --verbose and check texexec,ini? What happens if you leave the fmt files on the current path? Do you then also get an error? Hans ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Hans Hagen | PRAGMA ADE | pragma@wxs.nl Ridderstraat 27 | 8061 GH Hasselt | The Netherlands tel: +31 (0)38 477 53 69 | fax: +31 (0)38 477 53 74 | www.pragma-ade.com -------------------------------------------------------------------------