MiKTeX and proTeXt

Peppo · Post by **Peppo** » Wed Nov 10, 2010 2:02 pm

I installed MikTex2.9 under Windows XP SP3
I create a document firsttest.tex and try to run

latex firsttest.tex

from the folder containing firsttest.tex but the results is the following

I can't find file 'firsttest.tex'

However, if I type the full path:

latex "C:\Program Files\MiKTeX 2.9\testing\firsttest.tex"

then it works fine. How can I run WITHOUT having to type the full path?
Thank you

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Post by **localghost** » Wed Nov 10, 2010 7:57 pm

It is far from being recommendable to put your documents inside the TeX installation tree. Instead you should put them where you have your private data and try again.

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Peppo · Post by **Peppo** » Thu Nov 11, 2010 11:45 am

I guess I found the solution by myself.
Click
Start\Programs\Miktek 2.9\Maintanance\Settings
select tab Roots
and Add... the folder containing the input file.
This seems made it.

But I must agree with the above too. Not a good choice to put input file into the MikTek directory.

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