<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class="">OK, you definitely run /bin/tcsh as your shell. It seems you have the correct things in /etc/paths.d and texbin is in the right place.<div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">We have to understand why the path is not correctly set, see later messages. Herb suggests to check the global initialization files in /etc. Let’s see if that turns anything up.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">—Ettore</div><div class=""><br class=""><div><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On Sep 2, 2015, at 15:14, John Burt <<a href="mailto:burt@brandeis.edu" class="">burt@brandeis.edu</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><div dir="ltr" class=""><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 11px; font-family: Menlo;" class="">[C07H5099DJD2:~/Documents/TeX documents/articles] burt% echo $SHELL</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 11px; font-family: Menlo;" class="">/bin/tcsh</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 11px; font-family: Menlo;" class="">[C07H5099DJD2:~/Documents/TeX documents/articles] burt% echo $shell</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 11px; font-family: Menlo;" class="">/bin/tcsh</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 11px; font-family: Menlo;" class="">[C07H5099DJD2:~/Documents/TeX documents/articles] burt% ls -F /Library/TeX</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 11px; font-family: Menlo;" class="">Distributions/<span class="" style="white-space:pre"> </span>Documentation@<span class="" style="white-space:pre"> </span>Local@<span class="" style="white-space:pre"> </span>Root@<span class="" style="white-space:pre"> </span>texbin@</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 11px; font-family: Menlo;" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 11px; font-family: Menlo;" class="">.login does not exist, but .cshrc does (and is empty).</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 11px; font-family: Menlo;" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 11px; font-family: Menlo;" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 11px; font-family: Menlo;" class="">thanks so much!</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 11px; font-family: Menlo;" class="">John</div><div class="gmail_extra"><br class=""><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Sep 2, 2015 at 2:41 PM, Ettore Aldrovandi <span dir="ltr" class=""><<a href="mailto:ealdrov@mail.math.fsu.edu" target="_blank" class="">ealdrov@mail.math.fsu.edu</a>></span> wrote:<br class=""><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);border-left-style:solid;padding-left:1ex"><div style="word-wrap:break-word" class=""><br class=""><div class=""><span class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On Sep 2, 2015, at 14:22, John Burt <<a href="mailto:burt@brandeis.edu" target="_blank" class="">burt@brandeis.edu</a>> wrote:</div><br class=""><div class=""><div dir="ltr" class=""><div style="margin:0px;font-size:11px;font-family:Menlo" class="">[C07H5099DJD2:~/Documents/TeX documents/articles] burt% echo $SHELL</div><div style="margin:0px;font-size:11px;font-family:Menlo" class="">/bin/tcsh</div></div></div></blockquote><div class=""><br class=""></div></span>Oh my! As far as I remember, Fink sets things up so that .profile is sourced into .tcshrc or .cshrc so the problem may have been taken care of anyway (Herb, the path stuff in tcsh startup files is different.) Could you please run:</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">echo $SHELL</div><div class="">echo $shell</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">(Yes, I mean both!)?</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><span class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class=""><div dir="ltr" class=""><div style="margin:0px;font-size:11px;font-family:Menlo" class="">There is a symbolic link to texbin in the TeX folder</div></div></div></blockquote><div class=""><br class=""></div></span>Yes, but the chain of symbolic links should be correctly set up for the tex pref panel to operate. As Herb has explained, we need to know if texbin is in the directory /Library/TeX. So what does</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">ls -F /Library/TeX</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">returns? Then, again as Herb pointed out, running the Setup-2015.pkg should help.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">To be sure everything is alright, do you have files:</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">.login</div><div class="">.cshrc and/or .tcshrc</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">in your home directory? Again, running</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">cd</div><div class="">ls -a</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">should show them. In that case it would be helpful to know their content. </div><span class=""><div class=""><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div dir="ltr" class=""><div style="margin:0px;font-size:11px;font-family:Menlo" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="margin:0px;font-size:11px;font-family:Menlo" class="">I see that I can get rid of the FINk material by throwing away the /sw folder</div><div style="margin:0px;font-size:11px;font-family:Menlo" class=""><br class=""></div></div></blockquote><br class=""></div></span><div class="">Good.</div><span class=""><font color="#888888" class=""><br class=""><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">—Ettore</div></font></span></div><br class="">----------- Please Consult the Following Before Posting -----------<br class="">
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