[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Hello LyX Users,
>
> I�m trying to get LyXWin running on Windows 2000. I have installed
> lyx-1.3.5-win32-nc.exe according to the instructions on the LyX WikiWiki
> � LyX.WindowsSetup webpage.
>
> After a bit of fiddling around all appeared to be working OK. I seem to
> be able to create, view etc new documents but I get an error when I try
> to open some of my older thesis chapters which were created in an older
> version of LyX (1.1.6 fix 3). When I try to open those files I get an
> error saying:
>
> �ERROR!
> An error occurred while running the converstion script.�
This occurs because LyX is hard-coded to invoke lyx2lyx as
"<path to>/lyx2lyx <various options>"
and, unfortunately for us, Windows can't work out what to do with the
lyx2lyx file. Windows uses the file extensioon as a guide to
functionality. Posix machines check the first line of the file to see
whether it is a script and, if so, what program to use to execute it.
There will be a proper fix in the 1.3.6 release where lyx2lyx is called as
"python <path to>lyx2lyx <various options>"
Meanwhile, I suggest that you run lyx2lyx by hand, from the command line:
PROMPT> python C:\LyX\share\lyx\lyx2lyx\lyx2lyx -o new.lyx old.lyx
--
Angus
