From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.comp.tex.context/28797 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Aditya Mahajan Newsgroups: gmane.comp.tex.context Subject: Re: Linux upgrade Date: Fri, 23 Jun 2006 11:54:26 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: References: <200606221918.07473.john@wexfordpress.com> <200606231017.17609.john@wexfordpress.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 1151078091 401 80.91.229.2 (23 Jun 2006 15:54:51 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 23 Jun 2006 15:54:51 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: ntg-context-bounces@ntg.nl Fri Jun 23 17:54:49 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 1FtnzW-0005kw-8N for gctc-ntg-context-518@m.gmane.org; Fri, 23 Jun 2006 17:54:42 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3EB2F12857; Fri, 23 Jun 2006 17:54:42 +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 06116-02; Fri, 23 Jun 2006 17:54:37 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from ronja.vet.uu.nl (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id B48A912859; Fri, 23 Jun 2006 17:54:36 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6EA1812859 for ; Fri, 23 Jun 2006 17:54:34 +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 05041-06-2 for ; Fri, 23 Jun 2006 17:54:31 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from hackers.mr.itd.umich.edu (smtp.mail.umich.edu [141.211.14.81]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with SMTP id 6324212857 for ; Fri, 23 Jun 2006 17:54:31 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: FROM aditya.annarb01.mi.comcast.net (c-68-40-50-205.hsd1.mi.comcast.net [68.40.50.205]) BY hackers.mr.itd.umich.edu ID 449C0EB3.E1EA6.26701 ; 23 Jun 2006 11:54:29 -0400 Original-To: mailing list for ConTeXt users In-Reply-To: <200606231017.17609.john@wexfordpress.com> 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:28797 Archived-At: On Fri, 23 Jun 2006, John R. Culleton wrote: > On Thursday 22 June 2006 09:37 pm, Aditya Mahajan wrote: >> Hi John, >> Others will be able to tell you better on how to upgrade on Linux (I >> myself use windows) but >> >>> standard /usr/share/texmf tree. No joy. I get messages telling me to use >>> the texmfstart command instead. This is as I recall a Windows thingie. >> >> you need texmfstart on linux also. Does everything work fine if you >> use texmfstart? >> > Not yet. I am unsure what texmfstart is supposed to do. It is a > Ruby script. Does it replace texexec or does it manage texexec? texmfstart is a ruby script which manages texexec and other context script. Basically, instead of calling any script directly, call it using texmfstart. So, texexec filename becomes texmfstart texexec filename texutil becomes texmfstart texutil (though most of the functionality has been replaced by ctxtools) and so on. texmfstart makes sure that the script at the right path is called and also speeds up things a little when calling different utilities. It also provides some useful things like ifchanged and iftoughed. There is a texmfstart manual (bit out of date). Simply typing texmfstart on the shell lists the available switches. Aditya