Re: pdflatex cannot write on file test.log

I didn't modify the context menu. I simply used the features already
available:

       right click  >  Open with  > [browse for a program] > pdflatex.exe

And I did, a suggested, check that from the command line pdflatex.exe runs
without a problem.

On Thu, Nov 17, 2016 at 3:31 AM, Ulrike Fischer <[email protected]> wrote:

> Am Tue, 15 Nov 2016 20:42:58 -0500 schrieb David Guaspari:
>
> > 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.
>
> I have absolutly no idea how you (or some other application) added
> pdflatex or latex to the context menu but my guess would be that you
> are then running something like "pdflatex full-path-to-your-tex"
> while beeing in the bin-folder of pdflatex where external files
> can't be created (for good reasons).
>
>
> --
> Ulrike Fischer
> http://www.troubleshooting-tex.de/
>
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