From help-octave-request at bevo dot che dot wisc dot edu Thu May 17 03:45:43 2001 Subject: Re: system command From: Jan-Mark Batke To: Etienne Grossmann , help-octave@bevo.che.wisc.edu Date: 17 May 2001 10:45:10 +0200 Etienne Grossmann writes: > hello, > > > maybe you can try to add a line in mpmkmps.sh like > > source /your/home/dir/.bashrc My scripts starts with %!/bin/bash so I would expect that the normal environment is taken. > > or .bash_envs or .cshrc or whatever file your environment > variables are defined in. Is your login shell the same that > executes mpmkmps.sh? Yes, its alway the bash. My problem is that I cannot understand how mpost/latex vs the system()-cmd can start without the normal environment (which is the default of the teTeX distri). Maybe I should ask a teTeX list... Jan-Mark -- .- Dipl.-Ing. Jan-Mark Batke -- TU Berlin·Secretary FT 5-1 . Phone: ++49 30 314-2 45 78 Fachgebiet Fernmeldetechnik Fax: ++49 30 314-2 25 14 (Telecommunications Group) http://www-ft.ee.tu-berlin.de/~batke ------.¸.·¸.·´¯`·.¸.·. ------------------------------------------------------------- Octave is freely available under the terms of the GNU GPL. Octave's home on the web: http://www.octave.org How to fund new projects: http://www.octave.org/funding.html Subscription information: http://www.octave.org/archive.html -------------------------------------------------------------