Re: [Texmacs-dev] WinTeXmacs breaks Cygwin TeXmacs

[Andreas Seidl]

> WinTeXmacs sets GUILE_LOAD_PATH and TEXMACS_PATH.

This is a good hint. Indeed, now I can start Texmacs again from a Cygwin 
shell by:

unset GUILE_LOAD_PATH
unset TEXMACS_PATH
texmacs&

> This is done through the autoexec.bat file. You must make sure that these
> entries are removed.  Later versions of windows remove these entries and
> place them into the registry. You can remove these from the environment
> variable dialog under "My Computer->Properities->Advanced".
> They are stored in the registry under:
> HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE/SYSTEM/CurrentControlSet/Control/Session
> Manager/Environment.

I found the problem. On that machine I dual boot Win98 from C: and WinXP 
from D:. For some reasons, the installer added these declarations to 
C:\AUTOEXEC.BAT and for other reasons, Windows XP finds this file and uses 
it...

Btw. in case you are looking around for an alternative installation 
solution, I recently looked at Nullsoft's free installer

  http://nsis.sourceforge.net/

(Nullsoft are the people behind WinAmp). This page describes how to deal 
with environment variables:

  http://nsis.sourceforge.net/archive/nsisweb.php?page=156&instances=0

I've quite a good impression so far, although I've not yet tried the 
latter script.

Andreas.
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