Hello Wilfred
Thanks very much for the suggestion. I eventually gave up on the kind of cure
that would have allowed me to understand what had happened, and reverted to the
previous day's checkpoint (I'd actually forgotten that Restore implemented an
automatic checkpoint every 24 hours). It looks very much like a Registry
corruption but I'll never really know now!
Best wishes
John
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From: Wilfred van Rooijen
To: XeTeX (Unicode-based TeX) discussion.
Sent: 12 June 2013 00:24
Subject: Re: [XeTeX] Broken XeTeX
I am not really a hero with Windows, but maybe:
- Go to Control Panel, Add/Remove Software, and remove everything related to
TeXLive
- Check the directories manually and manually remove any remaining files /
directories
- Install TeXLive from scratch
Hopefully this will give you a clean system. Backup any personal material you
may have put into the texmf tree. Otherwise, maybe you can find a "registry
cleaning tool", maybe on SourceForge or similar?
Cheers,
Wilfred
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From: John Was <john....@ntlworld.com>
To: XeTeX (Unicode-based TeX) discussion. <xetex@tug.org>
Sent: Wednesday, June 12, 2013 2:02 AM
Subject: Re: [XeTeX] Broken XeTeX
I'm afraid I've run into something rather more serious. I installed the
2012 DVD and all went OK, but now from the command prompt I get
(null): fatal: Can't determine where the executable xetex is.
If I go manually to the TeXLive directory and click on xetex.exe (which
certainly is there), for a microsecond I get a DOS prompt box flashing up
but it immediately disappears.
The PATH environment is OK so I'm rather stumped - I think it's probably a
Registry corruption, but any other ideas would be welcome!
Best wishes
John
----- Original Message -----
From: "Peter Dyballa" <peter_dyba...@web.de>
To: "XeTeX (Unicode-based TeX) discussion." <xetex@tug.org>
Sent: 11 June 2013 16:02
Subject: Re: [XeTeX] Broken XeTeX
Am 11.06.2013 um 16:26 schrieb John Was:
> I will investigate, but may have to reinstall (or install an updated
> version, which I guess I ought to as 2009 seems a long way off now).
Instead of trying to install a newer xdvipdfmx (then this binary certainly
won't work because it would search its resources outside of TL '09), you
could update to a TL '13 pre-release…
> TL Manager isn't working either so it looks as if something rather nasty
> has happened!
Does it see backups of the TL packages? Do you have made backups of your
system? Why not? A TL '09 manager does not work with any other release than
TL '09. And this release should still be available in the historic branch
of
CTAN.
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Greetings
Pete
Upgraded, adj.:
Didn't work the first time.
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