Re: problem with toolbar commands

[Joel J. Adamson]

Ralf Angeli <dev.null@caeruleus.net> writes:

> * coskun (2008-02-14) writes:
>
>> Emacs+AucTeX and MiKTeX work fine separately, but when I try to use
>> toolbar commands LaTeX, view, pdfLaTeX, etc. I get the following
>> message.
>>
>> Running `LaTeX' on `test' with ``latex \nonstopmode\input{test.tex}''
>>
>> However, compilation never gets completed, no output is generated.
>
> Does the latex command work if you use it in a Windows prompt?

I had trouble getting TeX to work on Windows: I had to specify the full
pathname for the executable every time.  This led to a famous encounter
with our Help Desk:

"What program is that?  ... Oh no, you can't have command-line access,
you could crash the whole system."

Joel

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