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[Andreas Seidl <address@hidden>]

Joseph,

> Sorry my letters continue to be rejected from the list.  I emailed 
> fabien, but I haven't heard anything yet.   

I'll cc your mail to the list.

> I am about to try further to 
> expunge my system of all things cygwin  texmacs, and tex: but I think 
> you should know that the native port is pretty agressive about claiming 
> its paths.   Anyway I just physically deleted cygwin. and all texmacs 
> directories i can find.  lets see...

To completely remove cygwin, you delete the folders C:\cygwin and the 
local packages. Then run regedit, search for Cygnus and delete the two 
keys. See as well:

http://www.cygwin.com/faq/faq_2.html#SEC19

It should, however not be necessary to un- or re-install cygwin, as it 
barely affects your system. 

> I have now attempted to wipe my system of previous tex distributions,
> uninstall the native port (via add remove programs in windows), and
> begin a fresh installation of Texmacs and cygwin unfortunately:
> 
> The first strange event is that cygwin complains that I don't have 
> xterm installed. However I know that my xserver works so I ignore this and 
> go on.

In my installation instruction I suggested to test the X-server with a 
simple xterm. You have, however, to install the xterm package, it is not 
part of cygwin's base set of packages.

> Next problem:
> 
> The TEXMACS_PATH remains set to the old Wintexmacs path.  I can't find
> where this is being set.  I looked for it in my windows systems
> enviroment variables, but to no avail.. Texmacs doesn't appear to have
> any registry entries.
>  If you set the path to something else, shut down cygwin (well click on
> the little x to shut down bash i don't know what this actually does) the
> variable is reset to the wintexmacs path. Thus if I just let the cygwin
> script run naively it gets confused and I got a
> 
> can't find texmacs.bin error. 

> If I force the script to set these paths anyway, texmacs begins its 
> install. It has a lot of trouble with mktexpk (this seems to create 
> fonts?) 

mktexpk - create a PK file for a font

You could check by saying

which mktexpk

that indeed the /usr/bin/mktexpk is used, and not LiveTex' version.

> and tells me to update it.  However it says that the program 
> installed successfully. Then it tries to run the editor.
> 
> it loads an extended list of programs.  Then crashes with:
> Fatal error: url could not be resolved in 'concrete_resolve'
> See file: url.cpp
> 
> floating point exception(core dumped) texmacs.
> 
> Any help would be greatly appreciated. 

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