Re: cannot confiogure lyx on WinXP

2006-05-13 Thread Gerhard Schaffer
Stephen Harris wrote: Very well done! It has been a most excellent adventure. I learned something about what dv2dt.exe and dt2dt.exe do to earn their keep. PS: Nevertheless I'll try the new_msys-1.0.dll too and give you a feedback on that matter. I have made an msys installation and copied the

Re: cannot confiogure lyx on WinXP

2006-05-13 Thread Paul A. Rubin
Gerhard Schaffer wrote: \path_prefix C:\msys\1.0\bin;C:\Python24;C:\texmf\miktex\bin; C:\gs\gs8.51\bin;C:\ImageMagick There is an interesting thing, all these Paths point to C: and not to the correct directories, nevertheless Acrobat and Yap are starteed witout problems. Why this ? The path

Re: cannot confiogure lyx on WinXP

2006-05-13 Thread Stephen Harris
Gerhard Schaffer wrote: PS: Nevertheless I'll try the new_msys-1.0.dll too and give you a feedback on that matter. I have made an msys installation and copied the new-msys-1.0.dll to that installation and renamed it to mysy-1.0.dll. Then I added the msys directory to the PATH and

Re: cannot confiogure lyx on WinXP

2006-05-13 Thread Gerhard Schaffer
Stephen Harris wrote: Very well done! It has been a most excellent adventure. I learned something about what dv2dt.exe and dt2dt.exe do to earn their keep. PS: Nevertheless I'll try the new_msys-1.0.dll too and give you a feedback on that matter. I have made an msys installation and copied the

Re: cannot confiogure lyx on WinXP

2006-05-13 Thread Paul A. Rubin
Gerhard Schaffer wrote: \path_prefix C:\msys\1.0\bin;C:\Python24;C:\texmf\miktex\bin; C:\gs\gs8.51\bin;C:\ImageMagick There is an interesting thing, all these Paths point to C: and not to the correct directories, nevertheless Acrobat and Yap are starteed witout problems. Why this ? The path

Re: cannot confiogure lyx on WinXP

2006-05-13 Thread Stephen Harris
Gerhard Schaffer wrote: PS: Nevertheless I'll try the new_msys-1.0.dll too and give you a feedback on that matter. I have made an msys installation and copied the new-msys-1.0.dll to that installation and renamed it to mysy-1.0.dll. Then I added the msys directory to the PATH and

Re: cannot confiogure lyx on WinXP

2006-05-13 Thread Gerhard Schaffer
Stephen Harris wrote: Very well done! It has been a most excellent adventure. I learned something about what dv2dt.exe and dt2dt.exe do to earn their keep. PS: Nevertheless I'll try the new_msys-1.0.dll too and give you a feedback on that matter. I have made an msys installation and copied the

Re: cannot confiogure lyx on WinXP

2006-05-13 Thread Paul A. Rubin
Gerhard Schaffer wrote: \path_prefix "C:\msys\1.0\bin;C:\Python24;C:\texmf\miktex\bin; C:\gs\gs8.51\bin;C:\ImageMagick" There is an interesting thing, all these Paths point to C: and not to the correct directories, nevertheless Acrobat and Yap are starteed witout problems. Why this ? The

Re: cannot confiogure lyx on WinXP

2006-05-13 Thread Stephen Harris
Gerhard Schaffer wrote: PS: Nevertheless I'll try the new_msys-1.0.dll too and give you a feedback on that matter. I have made an msys installation and copied the new-msys-1.0.dll to that installation and renamed it to mysy-1.0.dll. Then I added the msys directory to the PATH and

Re: cannot confiogure lyx on WinXP

2006-05-12 Thread SCHAFFER Gerhard
Hi To be able to configure lyx, I've installed cygwin now. Then I deleted all the msys stuff from the lyx141\bin directory and added cygwin/bin to the PATH After this 'sh configure' worked fine I can start lyx now with a modified lyx.bat (again, I added cygwin\bin to the PATH EnvVar) Thus I'm

Re: cannot confiogure lyx on WinXP

2006-05-12 Thread Paul A. Rubin
SCHAFFER Gerhard wrote: But now I have a problem to export the document to dvi or pdf format and it is not posible to get a dvi preview in yap. Trying do to so, I get an error dialog (I think from python) concerning the script directory :-( What is the error message? Also, what happens if

Re: WG: cannot confiogure lyx on WinXP

2006-05-12 Thread Gerhard Schaffer
Hi Stephen Well, I think it is because the cygwin sh.exe and the msys sh.exe are not the same. I probably mentioned that earlier when I suggested taking Cygwin out of the windows Path. sed.exe can be a problem. But this way can work but takes more effort. To start with something easy, let us

Re: cannot confiogure lyx on WinXP

2006-05-12 Thread SCHAFFER Gerhard
Hi To be able to configure lyx, I've installed cygwin now. Then I deleted all the msys stuff from the lyx141\bin directory and added cygwin/bin to the PATH After this 'sh configure' worked fine I can start lyx now with a modified lyx.bat (again, I added cygwin\bin to the PATH EnvVar) Thus I'm

Re: cannot confiogure lyx on WinXP

2006-05-12 Thread Paul A. Rubin
SCHAFFER Gerhard wrote: But now I have a problem to export the document to dvi or pdf format and it is not posible to get a dvi preview in yap. Trying do to so, I get an error dialog (I think from python) concerning the script directory :-( What is the error message? Also, what happens if

Re: WG: cannot confiogure lyx on WinXP

2006-05-12 Thread Gerhard Schaffer
Hi Stephen Well, I think it is because the cygwin sh.exe and the msys sh.exe are not the same. I probably mentioned that earlier when I suggested taking Cygwin out of the windows Path. sed.exe can be a problem. But this way can work but takes more effort. To start with something easy, let us

Re: cannot confiogure lyx on WinXP

2006-05-12 Thread SCHAFFER Gerhard
Hi To be able to configure lyx, I've installed cygwin now. Then I deleted all the msys stuff from the lyx141\bin directory and added cygwin/bin to the PATH After this 'sh configure' worked fine I can start lyx now with a modified lyx.bat (again, I added cygwin\bin to the PATH EnvVar) Thus I'm

Re: cannot confiogure lyx on WinXP

2006-05-12 Thread Paul A. Rubin
SCHAFFER Gerhard wrote: But now I have a problem to export the document to dvi or pdf format and it is not posible to get a dvi preview in yap. Trying do to so, I get an error dialog (I think from python) concerning the script directory :-( What is the error message? Also, what happens if

Re: WG: cannot confiogure lyx on WinXP

2006-05-12 Thread Gerhard Schaffer
Hi Stephen Well, I think it is because the cygwin sh.exe and the msys sh.exe are not the same. I probably mentioned that earlier when I suggested taking Cygwin out of the windows Path. sed.exe can be a problem. But this way can work but takes more effort. To start with something easy, let us

Re: cannot confiogure lyx on WinXP

2006-05-11 Thread Abdelrazak Younes
Gerhard Schaffer a écrit : I just installed msys and started sh.exe in the msys\1.0\bin directory and it shows exactly the same error message: P:\Utility\Latex\msys\1.0\binsh AllocationBase 0x0, BaseAddress 0x715B, RegionSize 0x4D, State 0x1 P:\Utility\Latex\msys\1.0\bin\sh.exe:

Re: cannot confiogure lyx on WinXP

2006-05-11 Thread Gerhard Schaffer
Stephen Harris wrote: Gerhard Schaffer wrote: Stephen Harris wrote: You could put LyX in the Path. I don't think that is the problem anymore. I was not talking about the Path envVar when I wrote: Do you have a CYGWIN environment variable such as CYGWIN=ntsec? If so, remove it, then try

Re: cannot confiogure lyx on WinXP

2006-05-11 Thread Abdelrazak Younes
Gerhard Schaffer a écrit : I just installed msys and started sh.exe in the msys\1.0\bin directory and it shows exactly the same error message: P:\Utility\Latex\msys\1.0\binsh AllocationBase 0x0, BaseAddress 0x715B, RegionSize 0x4D, State 0x1 P:\Utility\Latex\msys\1.0\bin\sh.exe:

Re: cannot confiogure lyx on WinXP

2006-05-11 Thread Gerhard Schaffer
Stephen Harris wrote: Gerhard Schaffer wrote: Stephen Harris wrote: You could put LyX in the Path. I don't think that is the problem anymore. I was not talking about the Path envVar when I wrote: Do you have a CYGWIN environment variable such as CYGWIN=ntsec? If so, remove it, then try

Re: cannot confiogure lyx on WinXP

2006-05-11 Thread Abdelrazak Younes
Gerhard Schaffer a écrit : I just installed msys and started sh.exe in the msys\1.0\bin directory and it shows exactly the same error message: P:\Utility\Latex\msys\1.0\bin>sh AllocationBase 0x0, BaseAddress 0x715B, RegionSize 0x4D, State 0x1 P:\Utility\Latex\msys\1.0\bin\sh.exe:

Re: cannot confiogure lyx on WinXP

2006-05-11 Thread Gerhard Schaffer
Stephen Harris wrote: Gerhard Schaffer wrote: Stephen Harris wrote: You could put LyX in the Path. I don't think that is the problem anymore. I was not talking about the Path envVar when I wrote: Do you have a CYGWIN environment variable such as CYGWIN=ntsec? If so, remove it, then try

Re: cannot confiogure lyx on WinXP

2006-05-10 Thread Björn Snippe
Good morning Lyx'ers :) I'm just wondering why Gerhard's lyx141\bin directory contains a sh.exe, while on my WinXP-Installation the sh.exe is in the msys\1.0\bin folder. I did not use an all-in-one-installer (is there one for Lyx141-Win32 already?), but rather installed the prerequisites step

Re: cannot confiogure lyx on WinXP

2006-05-10 Thread Uwe Stöhr
Björn Snippe schrieb: Good morning Lyx'ers :) I'm just wondering why Gerhard's lyx141\bin directory contains a sh.exe, while on my WinXP-Installation the sh.exe is in the msys\1.0\bin folder. I did not use an all-in-one-installer That's the reason. (is there one for Lyx141-Win32 already?)

Re: cannot confiogure lyx on WinXP

2006-05-10 Thread Paul A. Rubin
Gerhard Schaffer wrote: But the problem is, that I cannot start sh and get an error message P:\Utility\LaTex\LyX141\binsh AllocationBase 0x0, BaseAddress 0x715B, RegionSize 0x4D, State 0x1 P:\Utility\LaTex\LyX141\bin\sh.exe: *** Couldn't reserve space for cygwin's heap, Win32

Re: cannot confiogure lyx on WinXP

2006-05-10 Thread Gerhard Schaffer
Stephen Harris wrote: You could put LyX in the Path. I don't think that is the problem anymore. I was not talking about the Path envVar when I wrote: Do you have a CYGWIN environment variable such as CYGWIN=ntsec? If so, remove it, then try again. Right-click on My Computer - Properties -

Re: cannot confiogure lyx on WinXP

2006-05-10 Thread Björn Snippe
Good morning Lyx'ers :) I'm just wondering why Gerhard's lyx141\bin directory contains a sh.exe, while on my WinXP-Installation the sh.exe is in the msys\1.0\bin folder. I did not use an all-in-one-installer (is there one for Lyx141-Win32 already?), but rather installed the prerequisites step

Re: cannot confiogure lyx on WinXP

2006-05-10 Thread Uwe Stöhr
Björn Snippe schrieb: Good morning Lyx'ers :) I'm just wondering why Gerhard's lyx141\bin directory contains a sh.exe, while on my WinXP-Installation the sh.exe is in the msys\1.0\bin folder. I did not use an all-in-one-installer That's the reason. (is there one for Lyx141-Win32 already?)

Re: cannot confiogure lyx on WinXP

2006-05-10 Thread Paul A. Rubin
Gerhard Schaffer wrote: But the problem is, that I cannot start sh and get an error message P:\Utility\LaTex\LyX141\binsh AllocationBase 0x0, BaseAddress 0x715B, RegionSize 0x4D, State 0x1 P:\Utility\LaTex\LyX141\bin\sh.exe: *** Couldn't reserve space for cygwin's heap, Win32

Re: cannot confiogure lyx on WinXP

2006-05-10 Thread Gerhard Schaffer
Stephen Harris wrote: You could put LyX in the Path. I don't think that is the problem anymore. I was not talking about the Path envVar when I wrote: Do you have a CYGWIN environment variable such as CYGWIN=ntsec? If so, remove it, then try again. Right-click on My Computer - Properties -

Re: cannot confiogure lyx on WinXP

2006-05-10 Thread Björn Snippe
Good morning Lyx'ers :) I'm just wondering why Gerhard's lyx141\bin directory contains a sh.exe, while on my WinXP-Installation the sh.exe is in the msys\1.0\bin folder. I did not use an all-in-one-installer (is there one for Lyx141-Win32 already?), but rather installed the prerequisites step

Re: cannot confiogure lyx on WinXP

2006-05-10 Thread Uwe Stöhr
Björn Snippe schrieb: Good morning Lyx'ers :) I'm just wondering why Gerhard's lyx141\bin directory contains a sh.exe, while on my WinXP-Installation the sh.exe is in the msys\1.0\bin folder. I did not use an all-in-one-installer That's the reason. (is there one for Lyx141-Win32 already?)

Re: cannot confiogure lyx on WinXP

2006-05-10 Thread Paul A. Rubin
Gerhard Schaffer wrote: But the problem is, that I cannot start sh and get an error message P:\Utility\LaTex\LyX141\bin>sh AllocationBase 0x0, BaseAddress 0x715B, RegionSize 0x4D, State 0x1 P:\Utility\LaTex\LyX141\bin\sh.exe: *** Couldn't reserve space for cygwin's heap, Win32

Re: cannot confiogure lyx on WinXP

2006-05-10 Thread Gerhard Schaffer
Stephen Harris wrote: You could put LyX in the Path. I don't think that is the problem anymore. I was not talking about the Path envVar when I wrote: Do you have a CYGWIN environment variable such as CYGWIN=ntsec? If so, remove it, then try again. Right-click on My Computer -> Properties ->

Re: cannot confiogure lyx on WinXP

2006-05-09 Thread Uwe Stöhr
Enrico Forestieri writes: I am sorry, but this is simply FUD. If he cannot even start sh, there is a problem with his cygwin installation. But you don't need cygwin. If cygwin was only installed to use it for LyX I recommend to deinstall it to avoid problems like this. regards Uwe

Re: cannot confiogure lyx on WinXP

2006-05-09 Thread Enrico Forestieri
Uwe Stöhr [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Enrico Forestieri writes: I am sorry, but this is simply FUD. If he cannot even start sh, there is a problem with his cygwin installation. But you don't need cygwin. If cygwin was only installed to use it for LyX I recommend to deinstall it to

Re: cannot confiogure lyx on WinXP

2006-05-09 Thread Gerhard Schaffer
Uwe Stöhr wrote: Gerhard Schaffer schrieb: But the problem is, that I cannot start sh and get an error message P:\Utility\LaTex\LyX141\binsh AllocationBase 0x0, BaseAddress 0x715B, RegionSize 0x4D, State 0x1 P:\Utility\LaTex\LyX141\bin\sh.exe: *** Couldn't reserve space for

Re: cannot confiogure lyx on WinXP

2006-05-09 Thread Stephen Harris
Gerhard Schaffer wrote: Uwe Stöhr wrote: Gerhard Schaffer schrieb: But the problem is, that I cannot start sh and get an error message P:\Utility\LaTex\LyX141\binsh AllocationBase 0x0, BaseAddress 0x715B, RegionSize 0x4D, State 0x1 P:\Utility\LaTex\LyX141\bin\sh.exe: ***

Re: cannot confiogure lyx on WinXP

2006-05-09 Thread Gerhard Schaffer
That means you probably dont have Msys in your Windows PATH, or you have Cygwin in your PATH, which has a different version of sh.exe, before Msys. This advice is about if you have used the installer where you download the needed helper programs. OTOH, the LyXWinInstaller provides the Msys

Re: cannot confiogure lyx on WinXP

2006-05-09 Thread Uwe Stöhr
Enrico Forestieri writes: I am sorry, but this is simply FUD. If he cannot even start sh, there is a problem with his cygwin installation. But you don't need cygwin. If cygwin was only installed to use it for LyX I recommend to deinstall it to avoid problems like this. regards Uwe

Re: cannot confiogure lyx on WinXP

2006-05-09 Thread Enrico Forestieri
Uwe Stöhr [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Enrico Forestieri writes: I am sorry, but this is simply FUD. If he cannot even start sh, there is a problem with his cygwin installation. But you don't need cygwin. If cygwin was only installed to use it for LyX I recommend to deinstall it to

Re: cannot confiogure lyx on WinXP

2006-05-09 Thread Gerhard Schaffer
Uwe Stöhr wrote: Gerhard Schaffer schrieb: But the problem is, that I cannot start sh and get an error message P:\Utility\LaTex\LyX141\binsh AllocationBase 0x0, BaseAddress 0x715B, RegionSize 0x4D, State 0x1 P:\Utility\LaTex\LyX141\bin\sh.exe: *** Couldn't reserve space for

Re: cannot confiogure lyx on WinXP

2006-05-09 Thread Stephen Harris
Gerhard Schaffer wrote: Uwe Stöhr wrote: Gerhard Schaffer schrieb: But the problem is, that I cannot start sh and get an error message P:\Utility\LaTex\LyX141\binsh AllocationBase 0x0, BaseAddress 0x715B, RegionSize 0x4D, State 0x1 P:\Utility\LaTex\LyX141\bin\sh.exe: ***

Re: cannot confiogure lyx on WinXP

2006-05-09 Thread Gerhard Schaffer
That means you probably dont have Msys in your Windows PATH, or you have Cygwin in your PATH, which has a different version of sh.exe, before Msys. This advice is about if you have used the installer where you download the needed helper programs. OTOH, the LyXWinInstaller provides the Msys

Re: cannot confiogure lyx on WinXP

2006-05-09 Thread Uwe Stöhr
Enrico Forestieri writes: I am sorry, but this is simply FUD. If he cannot even start sh, there is a problem with his cygwin installation. But you don't need cygwin. If cygwin was only installed to use it for LyX I recommend to deinstall it to avoid problems like this. regards Uwe

Re: cannot confiogure lyx on WinXP

2006-05-09 Thread Enrico Forestieri
Uwe Stöhr <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Enrico Forestieri writes: > > > I am sorry, but this is simply FUD. If he cannot even start sh, there > > is a problem with his cygwin installation. > > But you don't need cygwin. If cygwin was only installed to use it for > LyX I recommend to

Re: cannot confiogure lyx on WinXP

2006-05-09 Thread Gerhard Schaffer
Uwe Stöhr wrote: Gerhard Schaffer schrieb: But the problem is, that I cannot start sh and get an error message P:\Utility\LaTex\LyX141\bin>sh AllocationBase 0x0, BaseAddress 0x715B, RegionSize 0x4D, State 0x1 P:\Utility\LaTex\LyX141\bin\sh.exe: *** Couldn't reserve space for

Re: cannot confiogure lyx on WinXP

2006-05-09 Thread Stephen Harris
Gerhard Schaffer wrote: Uwe Stöhr wrote: Gerhard Schaffer schrieb: But the problem is, that I cannot start sh and get an error message P:\Utility\LaTex\LyX141\bin>sh AllocationBase 0x0, BaseAddress 0x715B, RegionSize 0x4D, State 0x1 P:\Utility\LaTex\LyX141\bin\sh.exe: ***

Re: cannot confiogure lyx on WinXP

2006-05-09 Thread Gerhard Schaffer
That means you probably dont have Msys in your Windows PATH, or you have Cygwin in your PATH, which has a different version of sh.exe, before Msys. This advice is about if you have used the installer where you download the needed helper programs. OTOH, the LyXWinInstaller provides the Msys

cannot confiogure lyx on WinXP

2006-05-08 Thread Gerhard Schaffer
I try to install Lyx 1.4.1 (Setup 2.1 complete) on a WinXP system, but Lyx is not configured during the installation. As described at the homepage I tried to configure Lyx by entering the command 'sh configure'. But the problem is, that I cannot start sh and get an error message

Re: cannot confiogure lyx on WinXP

2006-05-08 Thread Uwe Stöhr
Gerhard Schaffer schrieb: But the problem is, that I cannot start sh and get an error message P:\Utility\LaTex\LyX141\binsh AllocationBase 0x0, BaseAddress 0x715B, RegionSize 0x4D, State 0x1 P:\Utility\LaTex\LyX141\bin\sh.exe: *** Couldn't reserve space for cygwin's heap, Win32

Re: cannot confiogure lyx on WinXP

2006-05-08 Thread Stephen Harris
Gerhard Schaffer wrote: I try to install Lyx 1.4.1 (Setup 2.1 complete) on a WinXP system, but Lyx is not configured during the installation. As described at the homepage I tried to configure Lyx by entering the command 'sh configure'. But the problem is, that I cannot start sh and get an

Re: cannot confiogure lyx on WinXP

2006-05-08 Thread Enrico Forestieri
Uwe Stöhr [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Gerhard Schaffer schrieb: But the problem is, that I cannot start sh and get an error message P:\Utility\LaTex\LyX141\binsh AllocationBase 0x0, BaseAddress 0x715B, RegionSize 0x4D, State 0x1 P:\Utility\LaTex\LyX141\bin\sh.exe: ***

cannot confiogure lyx on WinXP

2006-05-08 Thread Gerhard Schaffer
I try to install Lyx 1.4.1 (Setup 2.1 complete) on a WinXP system, but Lyx is not configured during the installation. As described at the homepage I tried to configure Lyx by entering the command 'sh configure'. But the problem is, that I cannot start sh and get an error message

Re: cannot confiogure lyx on WinXP

2006-05-08 Thread Uwe Stöhr
Gerhard Schaffer schrieb: But the problem is, that I cannot start sh and get an error message P:\Utility\LaTex\LyX141\binsh AllocationBase 0x0, BaseAddress 0x715B, RegionSize 0x4D, State 0x1 P:\Utility\LaTex\LyX141\bin\sh.exe: *** Couldn't reserve space for cygwin's heap, Win32

Re: cannot confiogure lyx on WinXP

2006-05-08 Thread Stephen Harris
Gerhard Schaffer wrote: I try to install Lyx 1.4.1 (Setup 2.1 complete) on a WinXP system, but Lyx is not configured during the installation. As described at the homepage I tried to configure Lyx by entering the command 'sh configure'. But the problem is, that I cannot start sh and get an

Re: cannot confiogure lyx on WinXP

2006-05-08 Thread Enrico Forestieri
Uwe Stöhr [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Gerhard Schaffer schrieb: But the problem is, that I cannot start sh and get an error message P:\Utility\LaTex\LyX141\binsh AllocationBase 0x0, BaseAddress 0x715B, RegionSize 0x4D, State 0x1 P:\Utility\LaTex\LyX141\bin\sh.exe: ***

cannot confiogure lyx on WinXP

2006-05-08 Thread Gerhard Schaffer
I try to install Lyx 1.4.1 (Setup 2.1 complete) on a WinXP system, but Lyx is not configured during the installation. As described at the homepage I tried to configure Lyx by entering the command 'sh configure'. But the problem is, that I cannot start sh and get an error message

Re: cannot confiogure lyx on WinXP

2006-05-08 Thread Uwe Stöhr
Gerhard Schaffer schrieb: But the problem is, that I cannot start sh and get an error message P:\Utility\LaTex\LyX141\bin>sh AllocationBase 0x0, BaseAddress 0x715B, RegionSize 0x4D, State 0x1 P:\Utility\LaTex\LyX141\bin\sh.exe: *** Couldn't reserve space for cygwin's heap, Win32

Re: cannot confiogure lyx on WinXP

2006-05-08 Thread Stephen Harris
Gerhard Schaffer wrote: I try to install Lyx 1.4.1 (Setup 2.1 complete) on a WinXP system, but Lyx is not configured during the installation. As described at the homepage I tried to configure Lyx by entering the command 'sh configure'. But the problem is, that I cannot start sh and get an

Re: cannot confiogure lyx on WinXP

2006-05-08 Thread Enrico Forestieri
Uwe Stöhr <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Gerhard Schaffer schrieb: > > > But the problem is, that I cannot start sh and get an error message > > > > P:\Utility\LaTex\LyX141\bin>sh > > AllocationBase 0x0, BaseAddress 0x715B, RegionSize 0x4D, State > > 0x1 > >