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March 22, 2013
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  • March 22, 2013
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Can anyone help this guy out with his PE bug? 🙂

    11 replies

    1-Visitor
    March 22, 2013
    Richard!

    1-Visitor
    March 22, 2013
    crashtrain

    John Sillari
    Chief Technologist
    Dayton T. Brown, Inc.
    1-Visitor
    March 22, 2013
    He needs a kick!


    1-Visitor
    March 22, 2013
    ...in the crash!

    No joke. I've had this error occur on our PE servers. It's painful.

    John Sillari
    Chief Technologist
    Dayton T. Brown, Inc.
    1-Visitor
    March 22, 2013
    ERROR IS: Cannot find file called markitx. Is it in the currently active directory
    (err:1 line:1 pos:856)
    Compile failed - rc=32

    I can't determine which directory is should be in or where to get it from.

    Any documentation would help.

    Thanks
    Annie Hartley
    The Boeing Company
    GSS-IT


    1-Visitor
    March 25, 2013
    Markit is the parser that Arbortext Editor uses to validate documents. The inability of Arbortext Editor to find Arbortext-native files often occurs when you use an APTCATPATH environment variable that does not contain %D as one of the paths. (%D is the default path to Arbortext's own catalog files.) Your APTCATPATH variable value should read something like: C:\mydocuments\mydoctype;%D Leaving out the %D (don't forget the semi-colon separating it from the previous path) would cause this.
    1-Visitor
    March 25, 2013
    Thank you Ed. I will try to modify this path.
    Annie
    1-Visitor
    March 25, 2013
    FYI - That is literally "%D" (without the quotation marks).
    1-Visitor
    March 25, 2013
    Hi Annie -

    We also had the markitx issue when we first started with ArborText. Our
    fix was to give the user full permissions to the "C:\temp" folder which AT
    was using. Apparently, markitx is associated to one of the temp files AT
    creates and then reads and then deletes. When the user did not have Read
    and Write permissions, AT would return the error you mentioned.

    Hope this helps!

    Thank you,

    Matt Angel
    Technical Publications Engineer
    ZODIAC BIZJET INSERTS
    GALLEYS & EQUIPMENT


    44931 Falcon Place - Sterling - VA - 20166 - USA
    1-Visitor
    March 25, 2013
    Thank you Angel for this information.
    Regards,
    Annie Hartley
    The Boeing Company
    GSS-IT