Re: pdflatex cannot write on file test.log

Then I think the context menu item is doing some Really Strange.  I don't
have a context menu item, so I guess you made it yourself.  Maybe check
what it's doing.

On Wed, Nov 16, 2016 at 6:46 PM, David Guaspari <[email protected]> wrote:

> 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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