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[Henri Lesourd <address@hidden>]

Jack Zhang wrote:

> Hi, Henri
>
> Thanks for your very patient and kind reply. From your recent msg, I think
> we might work on different OS. I am working on the Windows system. That is
> why I feel it looks odd sometimes.
>
> In Windows, I type in bibtex from dos command. And return me the wrong msg.
> You can see the details from this screenshot.
>
>  
No, that's the "right" one. According to your screenshot,
when you type 'bibtex' :
[[
C:\research06\PhDthesis>bibtex x.bib
I couldn't open file name `x.bib.aux'
Please type input file name (no extension)--
.....
]]

, it tells you : << I couldn't open file name `x.bib.aux' >>.

This error message can only stem from bibTeX.
Otherwise, if bibTeX were not here, you would
get a message --from Windows--, instead, that
would look something like that (I don't remember
exactly how the MS-DOS error message looks exactly
when an executable file cannot be found) :
[[
C:\research06\PhDthesis>bibtex x.bib
Cannot launch 'bibtex.exe' : File not found
C:\research06\PhDthesis>_
]]

So the conclusion is that bibTeX is correctly installed
on your system : the problem you have is a problem for
having TeXmacs correctly connecting to bibTeX.

But I cannot say more without having the console
output of **TeXmacs**, now. I guess you didn't
saw this console output because you are just
starting TeXmacs by clicking on the TeXmacs
icon. Am I right ?

In this latter case, to see the TeXmacs's console
output, you must start TeXmacs from the command
line, this way :
[[
C:\research06\PhDthesis>texmacs <CR>
]]

and after hitting the <CR> key you should get :
[[
C:\research06\PhDthesis>texmacs <CR>
TeXmacs] With linked TrueType support   <<<<<<<------- Beginning of the 
TeXmacs output
.....................................
.....................................
]]

this is by looking in this very TeXmacs output that
you can figure out what happens.