[OS X TeX] teTeX does not run on OS X

[lcnlmmns at ruca.ua.ac.be]

Hi,

I have the same problem as C. Dube with Texshop (but I work around by 
asking to process in TEX and Ghostscript in stead of in  pdftex). This 
refusal to recognise pdftex occurred indeed first after upgrading TeTex 
to the version of 22/02 (during the installation some other things went 
wrong especially with fonts) I did not solve any of the font problems 
yet--> computer modern only.
It is interesting to know that in iTexMac the problem does not occur 
when altpdflatex is chosen but there it occurs also when pdflatex is 
chosen, therefore I assume that somewhere in the distribution both 
formats (pdftex and pdflatex) got mixed up.
Gerben Wierda heeft op dinsdag 12 maart 2002 om 09:32 het volgende 
geschreven:

> The first thing you can do is not complain to the llist while I am 
> still trying to help you off line and spend time trying to remotely 
> find out how your system got screwed up (I get roughly one such a 
> problem each month, so far it has always been something that has 
> nothing to do with the TeX installer, like people editing stuff in 
> Netinfo or installing other software or the like. I go to some lengths 
> helping these people, mainly to be sure that it is not the installer 
> that is at fault. If the installer is at fault, I immediately release a 
> fix).
>
> Having said that, I am beginning to supsect that your .fmt and .efmt 
> files have ended up elsewhere for some reason or there is a 
> combvination of that with permissions. If you want further help from 
> me, contact me off list.
>
> G
>
> On Tuesday, March 12, 2002, at 08:51 , C. Dube wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> I've installed the latest teTeX-Version on OS 10.1.3 but it does not
>> run. If I press the
>> Latex-Button in TeXShop, I get the following message:
>>
>> "This is pdfTeX, Version 3.14159-1.00b-pretest-20020211 (Web2c 7.3.7)
>> (Fatal format file error; I'm stymied)"
>>
>> Gerben told me to uninstall my teTeX and than reinstall it. I did so,
>> but it did not help anyway. After the installation I always get the
>> message that the installer was unable to create all *.ini-files like
>> pdftex.ini etc.
>>
>> Because I am not used to unix I do not know what to do.
>>
>> Maybe there is someone who can?
>>
>> Thank you,
>>
>> Christian
>>
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