miktex 2.1 on win 7 problem: metafont mode s not seen by initexmf, Yap

Vladimir Yumashev <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.tex.miktex
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 Hi, MikTeX Community

I am using MikTeX 2.1 + WinEdt 5.x on WinXP for many years without problems.

But after I installed it on another machine running Win 7, MikTeX appears to work
partially: it compiles all LaTeX documents, produces ps and pdf outputs, generates
necessary pk fonts but does not preview documents by Yap. Yap reports an error:
"METAFONT: unknown ljfour mode". In fact, the lists of screen and printed modes
in Yap are seen to be empty though all necessary files seem to be present:
     \texmf\metafont\misc\modes.mf
     \texmf\miktex\config\mfmodes
     etc.
It also appears that the line command
     initexmf  --list-modes
does not see metafont modes as well.

What could be the reason of this problem within Windows 7 ?
What feature is different in Windows 7 from that of XP ?

That is why I hate the idea of updating and upgrading any software tool being currently used.
I suspect that there is a confidential agreement between hardware and software manufacturers
in order to force the users to visit their shops again and again.

Some time ago I tried MikTeX 2.6 and 2.7 and found that its font generation subsystem
became extremely huge and slow as compared to 2.1, so I did not like it.

Regards

Vladimir Yumashev
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