pdflatex does not work on win after todays update but does on linux

Andreas Hirsch cursus.publicus at sacrumromanumimperium.org
Tue Jun 8 20:24:30 CEST 2021


as I suspected, this is NOT the cause of the NEW problem ...
(see attached screenshot)

[path added an successfully used]

Zdenek Wagner schrieb am 08.06.2021 um 15:02:
> Yes, it is a prompt showing that U:\texlive\bin\win32 is the current
> directory. There is a big difference between Windows and UNIX. UNIX
> systems will not run a program from a current directory unless its
> path is specified, it will always search PATH. This means that
> pdflatexh will not work unless TL is properly installed. On the
> contrary, in Windows the programs in the curent directory are prefered
> to the programs in PATH, thus having pdflatex.exe in the current
> directory Windows will invoke it even if TL is not installed properly.
> In this case, if U:\texlive is the samba share, U:\texlive\bin\win32
> must be added to PATH in System/Environment and must be callable
> without the full path from any directory (I would always "cd" to the
> directory of the document in order to make the command line shorter
> and simpler).
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