To a list already beleaguered with OS issues: Someone help, please.
After a longish period of disuse I have found that, although I had things working before, the MS-DOS shortcuts and/or programs for musixflx.exe, pmxab.exe and prepmx.exe need some work to get them going again on my computer. The one at the workplace, that is. The system is running under Windows 2000 Professional and I am using MikTeX 2.1 with MusixTeX T.98 (I think), PMX 2.3 and M-Tx 0.52. Yes, I know that some updates are overdue. The problem likely stems from the fact that I had to reinstall my hard-drive from a backup CD in February. I launch a batch file from the editor WinEdt that invokes the programs. The DOS feedback is that (for example) "'PREPMX.EXE' is not recognized as an internal or external command, operable program or batch file", which tells me that the DOS shortcuts are not providing the appropriate locations. Creating new links doesn't seem to do the trick, although I'm probably doing it wrong (right-click, new shortcut, browse to executable's location and select it), and neither does editing any information about the shortcut targets nor placing actual copies of the executables in the batch-file directory (while renaming the shortcuts to avoid any conflict). Entering the command shell (I believe that Win2k only emulates DOS) and going to the appropriate directories and entering the executable's names reveals that musixflx.exe and pmxab.exe respond, but prepmx.exe causes "DOS" to report that "The system cannot execute the specified program." Seems like I've been stuck here before, but I'm not making any progress. What steps can I take? Humbly, Mike Chapman PS � I'm pleased that I've made some progress using SuSE Linux at home, and have found out that teTeX is already installed. I haven't started using TeX yet other than trying to follow a teTeX How-To manual, because I don't yet understand the idea behind Linux's directory structuring (besides that, files weren't where they were described and the DVI viewer kept crashing, so I wonder if everything's installed properly). Could someone please point me to a resource that explains this at a beginner's level--from the fundamentals of locations such as usr, lib, root, etc to places where I can work under a user account? Plus, I'm working with KDE; I've started trying to grasp using Emacs, but what is a recommendable DVI viewer? _______________________________________________ TeX-music mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://sunsite.dk/mailman/listinfo/tex-music
