Hello David,
David Arnold wrote:
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> This is pdfeTeX, Version 3.14159-14f-released-20000525-2.1 (MiKTeX 2 UP 1)
> initexmf: don't know how to dump miktex
> cannot make f:/localtexmf/miktex.efmt
> I can't find the default format file!
>
> run time : 1 seconds
>
> Has anyone experienced this before and know how to cure the problem?
I have found that this is not texexec but solely MiKTeX problem, the problem
is that it seems that MiKTeX accept only restricted lenght of its arguments and
cuts off the rest of argument for each of arguments separately, so if your
TeXFormatPath contains f:/LocalTeXMF/miktex/fmt, then command line argument
--undump=f:/LocalTeXMF/miktex/fmt/cont-en are cut after /miktex, so TeX think
you wish to use miktex.efmt, not cont-en.efmt. Once you changed --undump= to &,
command line are shorter and ain't cut off. I don't know whether it's fixed in
MiKTeX 2.1.
Olya
