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Have you checked the system path?</div>
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I've that that issue when someone replaced the PATH instead of adding to it. Though last I saw this was on Win7.</div>
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You can get the same error if you open a terminal and run the cmd command. If it cannot then the PATH might be wrong.<br>
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<div id="divRplyFwdMsg" dir="ltr"><font face="Calibri, sans-serif" style="font-size:11pt" color="#000000"><b>From:</b> tex-live <tex-live-bounces+daleif=imf.au.dk@tug.org> on behalf of Denis Bitouzé <denis.bitouze@univ-littoral.fr><br>
<b>Sent:</b> 11 May 2023 12:41<br>
<b>To:</b> tex-live@tug.org <tex-live@tug.org><br>
<b>Subject:</b> Impossible to use TL 2023 on Windows</font>
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<div class="PlainText">Hi,<br>
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a student of mine used to have a working TL 2021 on Windows (10). He<br>
just removed it (using Add/Remove Programs) and installed TL 2023 (as<br>
administrator).<br>
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But, since then, it is impossible to run LaTeX. For instance, in the<br>
terminal (`cmd.exe`), `pdflatex test` tries to regenerate the pdflatex<br>
format (`pdflatex.fmt`) but fails with the error:<br>
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┌────<br>
│ Can't spawn "cmd.exe": No such file or directory at<br>
│ c:\texlive\...\fmtutil.pl line 727.<br>
└────<br>
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Any help would be greatly appreciated: my student is desperate!<br>
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Thanks!<br>
-- <br>
Denis<br>
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