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[Andreas Seidl <address@hidden>]

> I'm sorry to write you directly, however for reasons I don't understand 
> the TexMacs list rejects my message.  

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> I am having difficulties 
> installing the cygwin ditribution of Texmacs via the instructions on 
> your webpage:
> 
> when I attempted to run texmacs from the cygwin prompt I got:
> 
> exec: texmacs.bin not found
> 
> Then I went and executed texmacs.bin directly.  As one might expect it
> complained that the TexMacs Path was not sent correctly. So I opened up
> the texmacs "calling script (which sets the paths and then attempts to
> exec texmacs.bin.) in an editor and removed all of the "if"'s on the
> assumption that somehow the previous installation of the native port had
> confused this script. (I'm afraid I don't know what that z's in those
> lines do I am assuming its checking to see if the path is already set or
> not?).

man bash reveals:

      -z string
              True if the length of string is zero.

> 
> The new script looked like this:
> #!/bin/sh
> 
> #if [ -z "$TEXMACS_PATH" ] ; then
>   TEXMACS_PATH=/usr/share/TeXmacs
>   export TEXMACS_PATH
>  # if [ -z "$TEXMACS_BIN_PATH" ] ; then
>     TEXMACS_BIN_PATH=/usr/sbin/TeXmacs
>     export TEXMACS_BIN_PATH
>  # fi
> #else
>   #TEXMACS_BIN_PATH="$TEXMACS_PATH"
>   #export TEXMACS_BIN_PATH
> #fi
> 
> PATH="$TEXMACS_BIN_PATH/bin:$PATH"
> LD_LIBRARY_PATH="$TEXMACS_BIN_PATH/lib${LD_LIBRARY_PATH+":$LD_LIBRARY_PATH"}"
> export PATH LD_LIBRARY_PATH
> 
> exec texmacs.bin "$@" < /dev/null
>
> I typed temxacs&  (which calls this calling script no?) 

try:

which texmacs

Could somebody who is involved with the native TeXmacs Windows port verify 
or rebut the theory that installing it could lead to problems with the 
PATH?

> At any rate this caused the following message:
> 
> Error in procedure make-struct-layout:
> Error: wrong type of argument in position 1 (expecting STRINGP): pw
> 
> I installed the 1.039 from your site. I also tried the version at the
> cygwin site.  possible complicating issues: 
>i have a copy of TexLIve installed 

I don't know about this one.

>I use the STarNet x server.  It works. The same problems are
> evident with the other Xwin server.  

I run StarNet's X-Win32 as well without problems.

> I have a copy of the native windows
> port installed. It is however too buggy for daily use.
> 
> Thank you for your kind assistance,
> 
> Joseph Coffey
> Courant Institute of Mathematical Science
> 
> 

Best Regards,
Andreas Seidl
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