Lost /bin/latex?

[Randall R Schulz]

Igor,

% uname -a
CYGWIN_NT-5.0 CLEMENS 1.3.12(0.54/3/2) 2002-07-06 02:16 i686 unknown

% type -a latex
latex is /usr/bin/latex
latex is /bin/latex
latex is /cygdrive/d/Apps/texmf/miktex/bin/latex

% type -a tex
tex is /usr/bin/tex
tex is /bin/tex
tex is /cygdrive/d/Apps/texmf/miktex/bin/tex

% ll /bin/latex /bin/tex.exe
lrwxrwxrwx    1 RSchulz  None           86 Aug 14 11:21 /bin/latex -> tex*
-rwxrwxrwx    1 Administ None       220672 Aug  9 06:41 /bin/tex.exe*

% cygcheck latex
Found: d:\Apps\texmf\miktex\bin\latex.exe
d:\Apps\texmf\miktex\bin\latex.exe
   d:\Apps\texmf\miktex\bin\tex.dll
     d:\Apps\texmf\miktex\bin\miktex21.dll
       D:\WINNT\System32\KERNEL32.dll
         D:\WINNT\System32\NTDLL.DLL
       D:\WINNT\System32\ADVAPI32.dll
         D:\WINNT\System32\RPCRT4.DLL
       D:\WINNT\System32\MSVCP60.dll
         D:\WINNT\System32\MSVCRT.dll
     d:\Apps\texmf\miktex\bin\texmf21.dll
       D:\WINNT\System32\USER32.dll
         D:\WINNT\System32\GDI32.dll

% cygcheck D:/cygwin/bin/tex.exe
D:/cygwin/bin/tex.exe
   D:/cygwin/bin\cygkpathsea-3-3-7.dll
     D:/cygwin/bin\cygwin1.dll
       D:\WINNT\System32\KERNEL32.dll
         D:\WINNT\System32\NTDLL.DLL

% cygcheck D:/Apps/texmf/miktex/bin/tex.exe
D:/Apps/texmf/miktex/bin/tex.exe
   D:/Apps/texmf/miktex/bin\tex.dll
     D:/Apps/texmf/miktex/bin\miktex21.dll
       D:\WINNT\System32\KERNEL32.dll
         D:\WINNT\System32\NTDLL.DLL
       D:\WINNT\System32\ADVAPI32.dll
         D:\WINNT\System32\RPCRT4.DLL
       D:\WINNT\System32\MSVCP60.dll
         D:\WINNT\System32\MSVCRT.dll
     D:/Apps/texmf/miktex/bin\texmf21.dll
       D:\WINNT\System32\USER32.dll
         D:\WINNT\System32\GDI32.dll

So on my system, I'm picking up pieces from my MikTeX installation, which 
happens to be in my active PATH (my .bash_login culls out PATH entries that 
contain spaces, but that leaves the MikTeX directories).

Perhaps you changed you system-wide PATH or how you set up your Cygwin PATH 
or rearranged some part of your other TeX software that severed the 
connection that used to provide you access to latex from Cygwin.


<http://cygwin.com/cgi-bin2/package-grep.cgi?grep=latex.exe> yields:

         Found 0 matches for latex.exe.

Which confirms its absence from the tetex package (and all other packages). 
Searching for "latex" shows 27 hits, including Lilypond, MC, Perl, Python 
and various tetex packages.


Randall Schulz
Mountain View, CA USA


At 13:28 2002-09-24, you wrote:
>Hi, all.
>Am I going crazy, or has my computer lost /bin/latex?  For some reason I
>recall using tetex to process latex documents.  However, now that I've
>looked, I can't find /bin/latex.exe.  It's not even part of the tetex
>package.  Anyone else have that problem?
>         Igor
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