Re: problem finding files (cygwin-related?)

[Aditya Mahajan <adityam@umich.edu>]

On Thu, 18 Sep 2008, Jelle Huisman wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> I try to help a colleague who has successfully installed ConTeXt using
> the Windows installer and has started typesetting some documents. His
> installation has problems finding files. Using something like "\input
> ./path/to/file.tex" works OK, but this doesn't:
> \externalfigure[./path/to/file.pdf] He gets a "figure ./path/to/file.pdf
> can not be found"-error, while the same code works OK with my local
> Windows in a VMware virtual machine. He happens to have cygwin installed
> (I don't have it) and I was wondering whether that is the course of his
> problems? How does cygwin interfere with finding the /path/to/the
> picture file? Can I solve this by escaping the path in some special way?
> Or would moving the picture to the current directory help?

Is he trying to compile the file on cygwin or on cmd.exe? Was ruby 
installed for windows or for cygwin? Was another tex package installed on 
cygwin which may be interfering with context binaries (cygwin resets the 
paths when it is started).

Aditya
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