On Sat, Oct 3, 2009 at 2:05 PM, Ken Jackson <cyg...@jackson.io> wrote: > Steven Woody wrote: >> Hi, >> >> I was always using cygwin and today I installed texlive 2008 on my >> computer. But I found if I run texlive's xelatex command on my >> cygwin bash prompt, it will always return a "Program is not found" >> error. When I run the same command line under dos command prompt, >> it was fine. >> >> In my .bash_profile, the texlive path is set to be searched firstly. >> >> Can anyone give me a clue? > > > I haven't used that software, so these are only suggestions. > > The Tex Live documentation site <http://www.tug.org/texlive/doc.html> > has a link titled, "Binaries for i386-cygwin". You apparently > installed the win32 version, but maybe that one would be better. > > Try these under bash: > > echo "$PATH" > > Carefully look to insure the path is correct. > > type xelatex > > If the 'type' command can't find it, it's a different kind of problem > than not being able to execute. > > chmod +x xelatax > > Maybe bash doesn't recognize it as an executable. >
see if "which" can find it or try chmod 777 or less brute force variants if permissions aren't right. > -Ken Jackson > > -- > Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html > FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ > Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html > Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple > > -- marchy...@gmail.com Mike Marchywka 586 Saint James Walk Marietta GA 30067-7165 415-264-8477 (w)<- use this 404-788-1216 (C)<- leave message 989-348-4796 (P)<- emergency only marchy...@hotmail.com Note: If I am asking for free stuff, I normally use for hobby/non-profit information but may use in investment forums, public and private. Please indicate any concerns if applicable. Note: hotmail is censoring incoming mail using random criteria beyond my control and often hangs my browser but all my subscriptions are here..., try also marchy...@yahoo.com -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple