Re: config woes

2002-05-26 Thread Thomas Esser
1. I can't get my path commands to stick. When I issue export PATH=$PATH:/usr/TeX/bin/i386-linux I have to reissue it each time I log in and sometimes more often. I have issued this command as root, and the problem still wont go away; environment variables are only passed to child processes

Re: config woes

2002-05-26 Thread David Kastrup
Thomas Esser [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: 1. I can't get my path commands to stick. When I issue export PATH=$PATH:/usr/TeX/bin/i386-linux I have to reissue it each time I log in and sometimes more often. I have issued this command as root, and the problem still wont go away;

Re: config woes

2002-05-26 Thread Greg Black
David Kastrup wrote: | Ok, that settles .profile. Now why is your advice bad, bad, bad for | the system-wide configuration, as well? Because we nowadays have | Linux distributions that can be upgraded. And /etc/profile is sure to | be under the control of the upgrade process which will

Re: config woes

2002-05-26 Thread Richard Mahoney
On Sun, May 26, 2002 at 09:38:59AM +0200, David Kastrup wrote: Ok, that settles .profile. Now why is your advice bad, bad, bad for the system-wide configuration, as well? Because we nowadays have Linux distributions that can be upgraded. And /etc/profile is sure to be under the control of

Re: config woes

2002-05-26 Thread David Kastrup
Greg Black [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: David Kastrup wrote: | Ok, that settles .profile. Now why is your advice bad, bad, bad for | the system-wide configuration, as well? Because we nowadays have | Linux distributions that can be upgraded. And /etc/profile is sure to | be under the

Re: [tex-live] CM-Super font package v0.3.3 released

2002-05-26 Thread Sebastian Rahtz
On Sat, May 25, 2002 at 06:36:10PM +0400, Vladimir Volovich wrote: i've released the CM-Super font package v0.3.3 it will be on TeX Live 7. -- Sebastian Rahtz OUCS Information Manager 13 Banbury Road, Oxford OX2 6NN. Phone +44 1865 283431

Re: config woes

2002-05-26 Thread Thomas Esser
avail. Clicking on it gives Couldn't find the program 'oxdvi'' What happens if you start a shell and type /usr/TeX/bin/i386-linux/oxdvi -version in it? BTW: what do you mean by Clicking on it? Which application are you using to start oxdvi by Clicking on it? Thomas

Re: config woes

2002-05-26 Thread David Kastrup
Idris Samawi Hamid [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Just check if the oxdvi script exists in /usr/TeX/bin/i386-linux. Oh it's definitely there! I even tried to edit it to no avail. Clicking on it gives Couldn't find the program 'oxdvi'' chmod +x /usr/TeX/bin/i386-linux/oxdvi And check

Re: config woes

2002-05-26 Thread Idris S Hamid
What happens if you start a shell and type /usr/TeX/bin/i386-linux/oxdvi -version in it? :~ /usr/TeX/bin/i386-linux/oxdvi -version xdvi(k) version 22.40b for Omega Copyright (C) 1990-2001 Paul Vojta. Primary author of Xdvi: Paul Vojta; Xdvi-k maintainers: : There is NO WARRANTY of

Re: config woes

2002-05-26 Thread Idris S Hamid
On Sunday 26 May 2002 10:09, David Kastrup wrote: chmod +x /usr/TeX/bin/i386-linux/oxdvi It works now! But unfortunately it only works on regular TeX files and crashes on 16-bit dvi files. This is sad, since it worked well in fpTeX (owindvi). Now it's onto testing odvips:-) Thnx again! Best

Re: config woes

2002-05-26 Thread Jos Winnink
On Sunday 26 May 2002 07:50, Thomas Esser wrote: 1. I can't get my path commands to stick. When I issue export PATH=$PATH:/usr/TeX/bin/i386-linux I have to reissue it each time I log in and sometimes more often. I have issued this command as root, and the problem still wont go away;