[fptex] ver 0.5 install problems - could not undump

[ALAN A DUNWELL]

Thank you Prof. Ripley. 

I'll bet it is the .fmt file(s). Isn't there a way to just rebuild the formats 
w/o a complete make/remake of the entire system? No I didn't remake, I just 
downloaded these last week from Fabrice's site and thought that would be 
recent. 

Hmmmm, tchs? Maybe that makes it so you can pipe and redirect in a better way 
than a DOS shell which more or less doesn't redirect at all. All you see in the 
redirect file is just the latex announce, none of the debug info. I'll look 
into it. Thank you.



Date sent:      	Thu, 14 Feb 2002 19:12:34 +0000 (GMT)
From:           	Prof Brian Ripley <ripley@stats.ox.ac.uk>
Subject:        	Re: [fptex] ver 0.5 install problems - could not undump
To:             	ALAN A DUNWELL <dunwell@jila.colorado.edu>
Copies to:      	fptex@tug.org

> Looks like you have a corrupt latex.fmt.  You did remake it under 0.5?
> (Actually, 0.5 is several months old, and I suggest you update the latex
> sources before remaking.)
> 
> On Thu, 14 Feb 2002, ALAN A DUNWELL wrote:
> 
> > I have installed fpTeX0.5 from the ftp source on to an NT file server. I set
> > my path to include proper locations but I'm getting a fatal on any attempt to
> > latex. [NOTE: This is an install over a copy of my previous 0.4b and includes
> > my modified texmf.cnf and config.ps files.]
> >
> > I see the following when I try to latex the standard base example file
> > example2e.tex
> >
> > C:\XFER\TEXSTUF\sample2e
> > >latex sample2e.tex
> > This is TeX, Version 3.14159 (Web2c 7.3.3.1)
> > latex.exe: fatal: Could not undump 23225 4-byte item(s).
> >
> > Further examination with kpsewhich shows that the path settings and such are
> > all OK such as C:\XFER\TEXSTUF\sample2e
> > >kpsewhich -expand-path=$TEXMF
> > c:\TeX;n:/Win32/TeX/fpTeX05/texmf;n:/Win32/TeX/fpTeX05/jilatex
> >
> > except for
> > C:\XFER\TEXSTUF\sample2e
> > >kpsewhich -expand-var$TEXINPUTS
> > N:\WIN32\TEX\FPTEX05\BIN\WIN32\KPSEWH~1.EXE: unrecognized option `-expand-
> > var$TEXINPUTS'
> >
> > which seems to be some sort of illegal option in fpTeX.
> 
> And everywhere else that kpsewhich runs!  You need a space or = in there,
> and perhaps to escape $, depending on your shell.  (Yes, one can run
> decent shells on Windows: I use tcsh.)  E.g.
> 
> [c:/bdr]% kpsewhich -expand-var \$TEXINPUTS
> .;{c:/bdr/texmf,!!c:/TeX/texmf-var,!!c:/TeX/texmf_local,!!c:/TeX/fptex/texmf}/te
> x/{generic,}//
> 
> 
> > When I do a debug check, my DOS window is not large enough to capture all the
> > lines but I see C:\XFER\TEXSTUF\sample2e
> > >latex -kpathsea-debug=2 sample2e.tex
> > ....
> > ....... lines missing here
> > kdebug:hash_lookup(half_error_line.latex) => (nil)
> > kdebug:hash_lookup(half_error_line) => 50
> > kdebug:hash_lookup(max_print_line.latex) => (nil)
> > kdebug:hash_lookup(max_print_line) => 79
> > kdebug:hash_lookup(hash_extra.latex) => (nil)
> > kdebug:hash_lookup(hash_extra) => 0
> > This is TeX, Version 3.14159 (Web2c 7.3.3.1)
> > kdebug:hash_lookup(TEXFORMATS.latex) => (nil)
> > kdebug:hash_lookup(TEXFORMATS) => .;$TEXMF/web2c
> > kdebug:hash_lookup(TEXMF.latex) => (nil)
> > kdebug:hash_lookup(TEXMF) => {$HOMETEXMF,!!$TEXMFMAIN,!!$TEXMFLOCAL}
> > kdebug:hash_lookup(HOMETEXMF.latex) => (nil)
> > kdebug:hash_lookup(HOMETEXMF) => c:\TeX
> > kdebug:hash_lookup(TEXMFMAIN.latex) => (nil)
> > kdebug:hash_lookup(TEXMFMAIN) => $SELFAUTOPARENT/texmf
> > kdebug:hash_lookup(TEXMFLOCAL.latex) => (nil)
> > kdebug:hash_lookup(TEXMFLOCAL) => $SELFAUTOPARENT/jilatex
> > kdebug:hash_lookup(latex.fmt) => (nil)
> > kdebug:hash_lookup(latex.fmt) => n:/Win32/TeX/fpTeX05/texmf/web2c/
> > kdebug:hash_lookup(latex.fmt) => (nil)
> > kdebug:hash_lookup(latex.fmt) => n:/Win32/TeX/fpTeX05/texmf/web2c/
> > latex.exe: fatal: Could not undump 23225 4-byte item(s).
> >
> > which is not that much more informative than the very first message<g>.
> >
> > Any advice appreciated including suggestions on better debugging.
> 
> redirect the output to a file (in a decent shell ...).
> 
> -- 
> Brian D. Ripley,                  ripley@stats.ox.ac.uk
> Professor of Applied Statistics,  http://www.stats.ox.ac.uk/~ripley/
> University of Oxford,             Tel:  +44 1865 272861 (self)
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