Greetings-

Having a few weeeeee problems w/ getting ConTeXt built in my current
environment, and the symptoms are, to say the least, interesting. 

Background- 

1) MacOSX's distribution of teTeX comes with an older version of
ConTeXt installed, some time around April of last year i believe.

2) I needed some of the font support from the more recent
distributions (\usemodule[fnt-01], which isn't in the distribution
that comes w/ the current teTeX on MacOSX)

3) So, I d/l the latest (and beta) versions of ConTeXt. Do the usual
voodoo, unzip into the texmf world, etc (as per the install manual)

4) go to build the format using fmtutil-

5) With the beta distribution the format build fails at:

(/usr/local/teTeX/share/texmf/tex/context/base/context.tex

! I can't find file `syst-pln.tex'.

l.34 \input syst-pln.tex 

6) it -is- there.... in the release distribution I get the same only
it is at "\input spec-def.tex" which is also present and accounted
for, vis:

[flip.skidmore.edu] % ls -l syst-pln.tex

-rw-r--r--  1 root  admin  17949 Nov 17 16:51 syst-pln.tex

Now, I <italic>see</italic> them the files there, alas, the format
builder isn't seeing them. Anyone have any experience with this? Tried
all of the usual mundane voodoo, invisible characters, commented out
in context.tex prior to those includes, etc...

Baffling... clues? 

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flip phillips phd

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