From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.comp.tex.context/29912 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Mojca Miklavec" Newsgroups: gmane.comp.tex.context Subject: Re: cdwincontext Date: Thu, 3 Aug 2006 00:14:20 +0200 Message-ID: <6faad9f00608021514v79092de9mda53937d794fab31@mail.gmail.com> References: <37F6AA3C-285F-4AEE-978C-B45BF1F8BCCD@cox.net> <44D0FCCD.10302@elvenkind.com> <7A837BA2-110A-4A7E-BA04-1C3AD7B7321E@cox.net> <44D11400.8090603@elvenkind.com> Reply-To: mailing list for ConTeXt users NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1154556897 10683 80.91.229.2 (2 Aug 2006 22:14:57 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 2 Aug 2006 22:14:57 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: ntg-context-bounces@ntg.nl Thu Aug 03 00:14:53 2006 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 1G8OzB-0002Gw-9M for gctc-ntg-context-518@m.gmane.org; Thu, 03 Aug 2006 00:14:41 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 559591FE9F; Thu, 3 Aug 2006 00:14:40 +0200 (CEST) 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 13926-02; Thu, 3 Aug 2006 00:14:33 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from ronja.vet.uu.nl (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id E78F91FEE0; Thu, 3 Aug 2006 00:14:32 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id BE5841FEE0 for ; Thu, 3 Aug 2006 00:14:29 +0200 (CEST) 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 13419-04 for ; Thu, 3 Aug 2006 00:14:24 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from wx-out-0102.google.com (wx-out-0102.google.com [66.249.82.207]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with SMTP id 160BA1FE9F for ; Thu, 3 Aug 2006 00:14:23 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: by wx-out-0102.google.com with SMTP id s12so16111wxc for ; Wed, 02 Aug 2006 15:14:21 -0700 (PDT) Original-Received: by 10.78.134.12 with SMTP id h12mr540608hud; Wed, 02 Aug 2006 15:14:20 -0700 (PDT) Original-Received: by 10.78.194.19 with HTTP; Wed, 2 Aug 2006 15:14:20 -0700 (PDT) Original-To: "mailing list for ConTeXt users" In-Reply-To: <44D11400.8090603@elvenkind.com> Content-Disposition: inline X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at ntg.nl X-BeenThere: ntg-context@ntg.nl X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.7 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:29912 Archived-At: On 8/2/06, Taco Hoekwater wrote: > David Arnold wrote: > > Taco, > > > > Is this also true about: > > > > http://www.pragma-ade.com/context/install/mswincontext.zip > > Same batch file, so yes. > > It would be possible to convert the batch file into a perl or ruby > scripts plus a one-line batch that starts the interpreter + script, > but not being on windows except in very abnormal cases ... and even in that abnormal cases Taco somehow manages to get Windows 98 installed instead of XP ;) > I am personally not very likely to do that. Some time ago I was experimenting with ruby a bit: I tried to set some environmental variables, so that MikTeX could gain some functionality (MikTeX doesn't use that batch file and consequently "texexec --make --all", "ctxtools --update", ... don't work because scripts don't know where to place the files). But the problem was that changes to environmental variables were seen only locally, so it didn't make any sense at all. Do you indeed have any ideas how to set environmental variables inside of a ruby script, so that they would be seen from outside? Because that would solve a whole lot of problems in MikTeX. Saying that, something else came to my mind. Has anyone tried running ConTeXt on MikTeX on Windows 98? That one doesn't need any batch files. I don't know what will happen to files longer than 8 characters, but the rest might work. Mojca