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From: rdr@legislate.com (Raul Miller)
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Package: tex
Version: 3.1415

While running tex, I got the message

  sh: MakeTeXTeX: command not found

several times.  Following the first occurance of this error message I
got several error messages about overfull \hbox and overfull \vbox.

What is MakeTexTex?  Why isn't it included?

Raul

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Raul Miller wrote:
> Package: tex
> Version: 3.1415
>
> While running tex, I got the message
>
>   sh: MakeTeXTeX: command not found
>
> several times.  Following the first occurance of this error message I
> got several error messages about overfull \hbox and overfull \vbox.
>
> What is MakeTexTex?  Why isn't it included?

MakeTeXTeX is a small script that is called when TeX wants to read a
file with \input or \openin which can't be found in the search path. It
can be used to call additional tools like bibtex or makeindex. The file
is not necessary for normal TeX users. You can create an empty shell
script to avoid the "command not found" message.


Peter

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On Fri, 21 Apr 1995, Raul Miller wrote:

> While running tex, I got the message
>
>   sh: MakeTeXTeX: command not found
>
> several times.  Following the first occurance of this error message I
> got several error messages about overfull \hbox and overfull \vbox.
>
> What is MakeTexTex?  Why isn't it included?
MakeTeXTeX is intended to be a shell script to be called when
TeX tries to open a file for input and fails. It is a hook analogously
to MakeTeXPK intended to make missing pixel files.

Currently there is not application for this hook.
One could think of creating indices, .. I am open for ideas,
but for now, it suffices to say

echo "#!/bin/sh" > /usr/bin/MakeTeXTeX
chmod a+x /usr/bin/MakeTeXTeX

to stop the annoying messages.

Due to an error here, it was omitted from the distribution.
This is corrected in the new (but yet completely untested
and not uploaded TeX-release)

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