> You mentioned earlier that you couldn't run LyX from the console? I > wonder why not. Here Start->Run "command", followed by > <path to lyx>/lyx -dbg graphics,file > lyx.log > works perfectly.
What I meant to say is that I can't get debug output displayed to the console, or anywhere else for that matter. I usually start LyX from a cmd.exe console. Your command specification doesn't work for me at all, not that it particularly matters, except that I was hoping perhaps this was a secret way to get debug output to a log file. I'm curious why you run "command" rather than "cmd." Are you running on a Win9x box? I'm running XP. BTW, see http://www.hyperorg.com/blogger/mtarchive/001935.html for comments on the difference between command.exe and cmd.exe, if you're interested. All his as a prelude to stating I've never been able to run "lyx" from the command line; only "lyx.exe". I finally looked into this and see that get_binary_path() in package.C doesn't handle the case where argv[0] provides the executable name minus the .exe extension. Note that when you run from the Start->Run dialog, Windows apparently appends the ".exe" string if the user has neglected it. Not so, of course, from the command line. This should probably be addressed since it's not uncommon to launch from cmd windows without specifying the executable extension (whether it be .exe, .bat, or .cmd). Thanks Rob
