Hello Ulrike
'Not normal behaviour' is exactly right - yet as far as I could tell
(without testing every single application on my system) only XeTeX was
affected. I did click directly on xetex.exe from within the command prompt
box and got the same result.
Anyway, it seems clearly to have been a Windows issue rather than a XeTeX
issue, and as I said in a previous email the main suspect would be the
Registry. Everything is working OK now after I restored to the previous
day's settings, and during that process the evidence for what had happened
will have disappeared (or at least, I'm not going to try and re-create the
situation!).
Best wishes
John
----- Original Message -----
From: "Ulrike Fischer" <ne...@nililand.de>
To: <xetex@tug.org>
Sent: 12 June 2013 08:21
Subject: Re: [XeTeX] Broken XeTeX
Am Tue, 11 Jun 2013 18:02:06 +0100 schrieb John Was:
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.
That's imho not the normal message in a command prompt if a command
is not found. (I would have expected something like
"xetex is not recognized as an internal or external command").
Are you using the normal standard cmd.exe as prompt?
What happens if you issue e.g. "set" in this prompt?
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.
That's normal. That happens if you doubleclick an application
without gui.
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Ulrike Fischer
http://www.troubleshooting-tex.de/
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