Angus Leeming <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Then I'm afraid that LyX's use of pipes is incompatible with now your mac uses > pipes. This is definitely possible.
Actually, LyX pipes work fine on the Mac, and are used by Start-LyX to open files from the finder in LyX/Mac. I would guess that the pipes in M. Gosset's ~/.lyx directory were put there by a different version of LyX, perhaps by his previous fink installation. Removing the pipes (rm ~/.lyx/.lyxpipe*) and starting LyX/Mac again should get Angus's test working. The failure of M. Gosset's Start-LyX to find the location of the lyxpipe is more troubling. The following test, run from a Bourne shell may help locate the problem. This test uses the same mechanism to locate the pipe as the Start-LyX applescript. $ bogus=`perl -n -e 'print,exit if s/^.serverpipe\\s+\"(.+)\"/$1/;' ~/.lyx/preferences /Applications/LyX.app/Contents/Resources/lyx/preferences` $ echo $bogus On a working LyX/Mac installation, the value of $bogus should be -- in M. Gosset's case -- /Users/gosset/.lyx/.lyxpipe . If it doesn't work, I would suspect a broken perl installation or a permissions problem. -- Ronald Florence www.18james.com
