Re: pdflatex cannot write on file test.log

Good question. It runs from the command line.

On Wed, Nov 16, 2016 at 3:39 PM, Mark Yagnatinsky <[email protected]> wrote:

> what happens if you try from a command line?
>
> On Tue, Nov 15, 2016 at 8:42 PM, David Guaspari <[email protected]>
> wrote:
>
> > I'm using MikTeX on Windows 10. If, from the context menu for test.tex, I
> > open test.tex with pdflatex (or with latex), execution blocks with an
> error
> > message saying that the program can't write on test.log. If, instead, I
> > open test.tex with TeXworks and invoke pdflatex (or latex) from there, it
> > succeeds. This suggests to me that it's not a permissions problem -- or
> > that, if it is, it's more subtle than I know how to deal with. Grateful
> for
> > any suggestions.
> >
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