That's interesting. As I could trace, the leading / is removed on my system.
ldd output on my luatex gives (seems not really spectacular): linux-vdso.so.1 => (0x00007fffad7ff000) libdl.so.2 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libdl.so.2 (0x00007f221f099000) libm.so.6 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libm.so.6 (0x00007f221ee17000) libc.so.6 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libc.so.6 (0x00007f221ea8f000) /lib64/ld-linux-x86-64.so.2 (0x00007f221f2c1000) lua -v gives: Lua 5.1.5 Copyright (C) 1994-2012 Lua.org, PUC-Rio Though, I have lua5.2 installed in parallel Any other infos, which might help? On Tue, Nov 20, 2012 at 11:17 PM, Aditya Mahajan <adit...@umich.edu> wrote: > On Tue, 20 Nov 2012, Hans Hagen wrote: > >> On 11/20/2012 9:06 PM, Erik Margraf wrote: >>> >>> Hi, >>> >>> Thanks Aditya! >>> >>> I tried this again with >>> >>> \starttext >>> \typefile{/tmp/xxx.tex} >>> \stoptext >>> >>> and could trace what's going on ... (not even /tmp/xxx.tex worked) >> >> >> I just tried a standalone on a xubuntu virtual machine. I had no problems >> with >> >> /data/temp/test/test.tex: (also copied one level lower) >> >> \starttext >> >> \typefile{/data/temp/test.tex} >> \typefile{/data/test.tex} >> >> \stoptext >> >> So, I'm a bit puzzled. > > > On my machine, I can read files **with an extension** from anywhere in the > system, but \typefile{...} for a file without an extension results in: > > verbatims > file abc does not exist > > > Aditya > > > ___________________________________________________________________________________ > 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 : http://foundry.supelec.fr/projects/contextrev/ > wiki : http://contextgarden.net > ___________________________________________________________________________________ ___________________________________________________________________________________ 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 : http://foundry.supelec.fr/projects/contextrev/ wiki : http://contextgarden.net ___________________________________________________________________________________