From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.comp.tex.context/44474 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Ulrike Fischer Newsgroups: gmane.comp.tex.context Subject: Re: Miktex Date: Wed, 1 Oct 2008 09:40:03 +0200 Message-ID: References: <6faad9f00809301715l71b235a9h573cc1ad2792dbaa@mail.gmail.com> <51C93FBB-A1AC-4D40-86E4-2BD810D78C9E@suddenlink.net> Reply-To: news2@nililand.de, mailing list for ConTeXt users NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1222846920 3073 80.91.229.12 (1 Oct 2008 07:42:00 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 1 Oct 2008 07:42:00 +0000 (UTC) To: ntg-context@ntg.nl Original-X-From: ntg-context-bounces@ntg.nl Wed Oct 01 09:42:58 2008 connect(): Connection refused 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 lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1KkwME-0006gF-3H for gctc-ntg-context-518@m.gmane.org; Wed, 01 Oct 2008 09:42:50 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id C9E0B1FC16; Wed, 1 Oct 2008 09:41:44 +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 32689-04-7; Wed, 1 Oct 2008 09:40:56 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from ronja.vet.uu.nl (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 517771FE43; Wed, 1 Oct 2008 09:40:56 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id CCD751FE43 for ; Wed, 1 Oct 2008 09:40:54 +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 01874-01-3 for ; Wed, 1 Oct 2008 09:40:21 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from ciao.gmane.org (main.gmane.org [80.91.229.2]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 43C3C1FC16 for ; Wed, 1 Oct 2008 09:40:21 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from list by ciao.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.43) id 1KkwJm-0006fI-En for ntg-context@ntg.nl; Wed, 01 Oct 2008 07:40:18 +0000 Original-Received: from p5b2a7827.dip.t-dialin.net ([91.42.120.39]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Wed, 01 Oct 2008 07:40:18 +0000 Original-Received: from news2 by p5b2a7827.dip.t-dialin.net with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Wed, 01 Oct 2008 07:40:18 +0000 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 41 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: p5b2a7827.dip.t-dialin.net User-Agent: 40tude_Dialog/2.0.15.41de X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at ntg.nl X-BeenThere: ntg-context@ntg.nl X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.9 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:44474 Archived-At: Am Tue, 30 Sep 2008 22:38:38 -0700 schrieb David Arnold: >>> I saw your note on blog.miktex.org: If you still want to run ConTeXt >>> on MikTeX while it has been removed, you may create a file >>> texmfstart.bat in C:\Program Files\MiKTeX 2.7 \miktex\bin with the >>> content: >>> @echo off >>> ruby "C:\Program Files\MiKTeX 2.7\scripts\context\ruby >>> \texmfstart.rb" "%*" >>> and extract www.pragma-ade.com/context/current/cont-tmf.zip into C: >>> \Program Files\MiKTeX 2.7. Then, update filename database and >>> generate formats, and everything should work again. >>> I followed this advice, installed texmfstart.bat, unzipped cont- >>> tmf.zip properly, updated the filename database, then got stuck. At >>> the dos prompt: >>> $ texmfstart --help >>> Worked just fine. However, >>> $ texmfstart texexec --help >>> Did not work. >> Can you please try what happens if you install MikTeX in some folder >> with no spaces in base path? > I'll give your idea of no spaces a try tomorrow. Meanwhile if you can > think of anything less drastic, as I have to do this on 20 different > machines, .... You could try to unzip cont-tmf.zip in a separate root without spaces. E.g. C:\contextfiles\... Then add C:\contextfiles as a new root. -- Ulrike Fischer ___________________________________________________________________________________ If your question is of interest to others as well, please add an entry to the Wiki! maillist : ntg-context@ntg.nl / http://www.ntg.nl/mailman/listinfo/ntg-context webpage : http://www.pragma-ade.nl / http://tex.aanhet.net archive : https://foundry.supelec.fr/projects/contextrev/ wiki : http://contextgarden.net ___________________________________________________________________________________