[NTG-context] permissions in texmf/scripts/context/*

[Thomas A.Schmitz]

Thanks for clearing this up. I was looking into texmfstart for 
precisely this reason: I have a linux (gentoo) system on another 
partition of my OS X box, and even though everything is exactly the 
same (except the binaries, of course), I always get "texexec.pl not 
found" when I run "texexec something." When I invoke "perl 
DARNED_LONG_PATH_TO_TEXEXEC.PL something," everything works. TEXMF.CNF 
and diretory structure is identical. Well, no big deal, I'll replace 
the texexec stub like you suggested.

All best

Thomas
On Feb 6, 2005, at 11:19 PM, h h extern wrote:

> Thomas A.Schmitz wrote:
>> True, but that's not what mtexmfstart.pdf says...
>
> if one uses texmfstart, you only need to set the permission of 
> texmfstart in the  bin path; nowadays, my calls to script in the bin 
> paths look like:
>
> texexec ->
>
> #!/bin/sh
> texmfstart texexec.pl $@
>
> that way i'm independent of anything funny that will happen with 
> kpsewhich (since i only need to adapt texmfstart); think of recent 
> changes in the script path and scriptpath location method;
>
> btw, you can use texmfstart for more things, like
>
>   texmfstart --direct scite kpse:texmf.cnf
>
> this will launch scite and open the texmf.cnf file used by your 
> current installation.
>
> >texmfstart
> version  : 1.5.2 - 2003/2004 - www.pragma-ade.com
>
> usage    : texmfstart [switches] filename [optional arguments]
>
> switches : --verbose --report --browser --direct --execute --locate
>            --program --file   --page    --arguments
>            --make    --lmake  --wmake
>
> example  : texmfstart pstopdf.rb cow.eps
>            texmfstart --locate examplex.rb
>            texmfstart --execute examplex.rb
>            texmfstart --browser examplap.pdf
>            texmfstart showcase.pdf
>            texmfstart --page=2 --file=showcase.pdf
>            texmfstart --program=yourtex yourscript.pl arg-1 arg-2
>            texmfstart --direct xsltproc kpse:somefile.xsl somefile.xml
>            texmfstart bin:xsltproc kpse:somefile.xsl somefile.xml
>            texmfstart --iftouched=normal,lowres downsample.rb normal 
> lowres
>
> Hans
>
>
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