On Monday, Aug 30, 2004, at 17:57 America/Chicago, Reinhard Kotucha wrote:
"Christopher" == Christopher Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
I believe I found the answer to the problem. I checked my $PATH and found that it was being reset with a source command in my .login file (which is run after the .cshrc file). This eliminated the following paths from my $PATH
/usr/local/teTeX/bin/powerpc-apple-darwin-current/
Without this last line in the PATH, I previously cd'ed to the powerpc-apple-darwin-current directory to issue the "texconfig init" command. Perhaps this caused something in that directory to be loaded instead of what should have been loaded. Once I corrected the PATH problem I was able to issue the "texconfig init" command from my home directory and now here is the new corresponding portion of the texconfig.log.
Yes, this was the problem.
Thanks for the reply. I just read an article titled "In the Beginning was the Cammand Line" by Neal Stephenson and in it appeared the line about Unix: "Unix.. is not so much a product as it is a painstakingly compiled oral history.... It is our Gilgamesh epic." It appears that the same might be true about TeX! :-) I appreciate your relaying your own experience with entering commands from within the texmf (or bin) tree. The whole thing makes much more sense to me now.
Are you saying that I shouldn't have the '/usr/local/teTeX/bin/powerpc-apple-darwin-current' directory in my PATH? I must be misunderstanding you; without it there I don't know how I would issue the texconfig command without prefixing the 'powerpc' directory onto the command.While having the current directory at the front of tex's search path is reasonable, it is quite dangerous to have it in the $PATH.
To be more precise, plain.tex is read *while* texinfo.ini is read. An opening brace means opening a file and a closing brace means closing a file. A simplified version of your log file looks like:
(cp8bit.tcx) (texinfo.ini (plain.tex) (texinfo.tex))
Very useful nugget of information to have...thanks.
No...but this is not the log, it is what appeared on the terminal screen while running the texconfig command. In the log file there appears the following which supports your assertions:
There is something in your first logfile I do not understand:
This is TeXk, Version 3.141592 (Web2C 7.5.2) (INITEX) 16 AUG 2004 23:40 %&-line parsing enabled. (/usr/local/teTeX/share/texmf.tetex/web2c/cp8bit.tcx) **texinfo.ini (/usr/local/teTeX/share/texmf.tetex/tex/texinfo/texinfo.ini (/usr/local/teTeX/bin/powerpc-apple-darwin-current/texinfo ! Undefined control sequence. l.5 [EMAIL PROTECTED]@[EMAIL PROTECTED]@[EMAIL PROTECTED]@[EMAIL PROTECTED]@[EMAIL PROTECTED]@
plain.tex should have been loaded before texinfo.tex. Did you remove something from the log?
This is TeXk, Version 3.141592 (Web2C 7.5.2) (INITEX) 30 AUG 2004 23:47 %&-line parsing enabled. (/usr/local/teTeX/share/texmf.tetex/web2c/cp8bit.tcx) **texinfo.ini (/usr/local/teTeX/share/texmf.tetex/tex/texinfo/texinfo.ini (/usr/local/teTeX/share/texmf.tetex/tex/plain/base/plain.tex Preloading the plain format: codes, registers, [stuff deleted] \topins=\insert253 hyphenation (/usr/local/teTeX/share/texmf.tetex/tex/generic/hyphen/hyphen.tex)) (/usr/local/teTeX/bin/powerpc-apple-darwin-current/texinfo Missing character: There is no <FE> in font cmr10! Missing character: There is no <ED> in font cmr10! Missing character: There is no <FA> in font cmr10! Missing character: There is no <CE> in font cmr10! Missing character: There is no ^^85 in font cmr10!
! Missing $ inserted.
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$Much thanks again,
/c
