Stephen Harris <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Well I noticed that latex.exe was rather small and there was a symlink > to pdfetex.exe. So I tried to tried deleting latex.exe and then copying > pdfetex.exe to latex.exe but the binary LyX still found latex.exe "not > useable".
A cleaner solution is the following. If programname.exe is a symlink to a real binary program, then simply create a programname.bat file and put it in the ~\LyX\bin directory. This directory is always searched first, and thus when programname is invoked, programname.bat will be used. The script programname.bat is the following 3 liner (simply replace programname with the actual name of the program): @echo off sh.exe -c %* exit This works when the program is invoked without explicitely giving an extension, i.e., "programname arg1 ..." instead of "programname.exe arg1...", as programname.bat is spotted first. Then, when sh is called to execute the command, it will look for a program whose name is programname.exe and will spot the right one. As sh understands symlinks, there is no problem if programname.exe is a symlink. That's all. -- Enrico
