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Hello,

I have a new laptop and installed MiKTeX 2.9 on it. MetaPost refuses to compile all MP files that I created on my old machine. For example, the following file:
verbatimtex \documentclass{article}\begin{document} etex
beginfig(1);
z1=(0,0);
z2=(10mm,10mm);
drawarrow(z1--z2);
label.ulft(btex ...

Thanks, this does the trick.
Eilon

Thanks, Thorsten!
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