[XeTeX] XeTeX fresh install can't find file

[Steven Buraje Poggel]

Hello Xetex list members,

I have a slight problem with my fresh XeTeX install on Windows.

Here's the very short version:

I'm using W32TeX, installed it with the installer, which successfully completed a full installation.
Trying to run latex with a minimal latex file and I get an error
  ! Can't find file: minimal.tex
but the file is right there, handed over as a command line option.

And here's what I did in detail including command line input and output:

1. Downloaded all the files necessary for minimal,
standard and full install into c:\temp
like I was advised on: http://w32tex.org/

2. Extracted the files from texinst2009.zip into C:\W32TeX

3. Executed
texinst2009.exe c:\temp

It ran for a while and completed without any errors.

4. I added the bin directory (c:\W32TeX\bin) to my %path% 
environment variable and equally important - of course also removed 
the Miktex bin directory, as Miktex is still installed on my system.

5. Executed:
latex minimal.tex
(this time with Xetex/W32TeX)
and got an error message that latex couldn't find the file 'minimal.tex'.


Here's the original I/O:

Before changing the %path% variable:

  C:\test>latex -version
  MiKTeX-pdfTeX 2.7.2808 (1.40.4) (MiKTeX 2.7)
  Copyright (C) 1982 D. E. Knuth, (C) 1996-2006 Han The Thanh
  TeX is a trademark of the American Mathematical Society.

  C:\test>latex minimal.tex
  This is pdfTeX, Version 3.141592-1.40.4 (MiKTeX 2.7)
  entering extended mode
  (minimal.tex
  LaTeX2e <2005/12/01>
  Babel <v3.8h> and hyphenation patterns for english,
  dummylang,nohyphenation, german, ngerman, french, loaded.
  ("C:\Program Files\MiKTeX_2.7\tex\latex\base\article.cls"
  Document Class: article 2005/09/16 v1.4f Standard LaTeX document class
  ("C:\Program Files\MiKTeX_2.7\tex\latex\base\size10.clo")) (minimal.aux)
  [1] (minimal.aux) )
  Output written on minimal.dvi (1 page, 436 bytes).
  Transcript written on minimal.log.

That worked fine as expected.

After changing the %path% var to W32TeX's bin directory:

  C:\test>latex -version
  pdfTeX 3.1415926-1.40.10-2.2 (Web2C 2009)
  kpathsea version 5.0.0
  Copyright 2009 Peter Breitenlohner (eTeX)/Han The Thanh (pdfTeX).
  There is NO warranty.  Redistribution of this software is
  covered by the terms of both the pdfTeX copyright and
  the Lesser GNU General Public License.
  For more information about these matters, see the file
  named COPYING and the pdfTeX source.
  Primary author of pdfTeX: Peter Breitenlohner (eTeX)/Han The Thanh (pdfTeX).
  Compiled with libpng 1.2.40; using libpng 1.2.40
  Compiled with zlib 1.2.3; using zlib 1.2.3
  Compiled with xpdf version 3.02pl4

YAY - it worked, now using XeTeX.
Deleting whatever Miktex created:

  C:\test>del *.aux
  C:\test>del *.dvi
  C:\test>del *.log
  C:\test>dir /b
  minimal.tex

And here's what isn't working:

  C:\test>latex minimal.tex
  This is pdfTeX, Version 3.1415926-1.40.10 (Web2C 2009)
  restricted \write18 enabled.
  entering extended mode
  ! I can't find file `minimal.tex'.
  <*> minimal.tex

  (Press Enter to retry, or Control-Z to exit)
  Please type another input file name: ^Z

  ! Emergency stop.
  <*> minimal.tex

  No pages of output.
  Transcript written on texput.log.

Can't find file??? What kind of error is that? It's right here!

  C:\test>dir /b
  minimal.tex
  texput.log

  C:\test>type minimal.tex
  \documentclass{article}
  \author{Steven}
  \title{Test Document}
  \begin{document}
  \maketitle
  This is a test document
  \end{document}
  
Is there another step necessary between installation and using XeTeX?
Do I have to remove Miktex? If so - why, where are those two interfering?

Best,
Steven






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