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Date:	Mon, 19 Feb 2001 00:14:04 +0100
From:	Jerome BENOIT <JGMBenoit AT Wanadoo DOT fr>
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To:	Marcin Orlowski <carlos AT amiga DOT com DOT pl>
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Subject:	Re: MikTeX, Ghostscript and Cygwin env
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I guess that it is not a good idea to use MiKTeX under Cygwin
because MiKTeX does not behave Unix-like under Cygwin:
I have (partially) installed `teTeX' and GS6.50  directly under Cygwin
(modulo `patches'):
all is fine and I can write Makefile.

I hope it helps,
Jerome

Marcin Orlowski wrote:
> 
> Hi,
> 
> My main point of installing Cygwin environment was to make all my TeX
> documents compilable on windows. Of course MikTeX does not need Cygwin
> stuff to work, but I also wanted all my makefiles work. Not it seems
> to work fine. I can 'make' my documents and it all TeX fine. Except
> for the dvipdfm (dvi->pdf) converter. It uses Ghostscript to process
> images. So I installed GS6.50 and made the dvipdfm use it.
> Unfortunately GS reports it can't find the image files. Now I don't
> know if that's because of cygwin 'emulation' things I am unaware of.
> I'd appreaciate any tips how to make GS to work under cygwin. Or from
> the other hand, all I want is working make, so maybe I shoot with
> too big gun installing Cygwin just for that (of course I don't mind
> bash ;-)?
> 
> Regards,
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> 
>  Marcin                              http://wfmh.org.pl/~carlos/
>                                        mailto:carlos AT wfmh DOT org DOT pl
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