Date:	Tue, 10 Nov 1998 16:29:42 +0200 (IST)
From:	Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>
X-Sender:	eliz AT is
To:	RJ vd Boon <rjvdboon AT cs DOT vu DOT nl>
cc:	djgpp AT delorie DOT com
Subject:	Re: ANNOUNCE: TeX/Web2c v7.2b ported and uploaded
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On Tue, 10 Nov 1998, RJ vd Boon wrote:

> I've read it completely (twice), I only didn't notice any word like:
> "by default the TEXMF and TEXMF/fonts are read-only" It might be
> usefull to cut and paste the little explenation to TeX.README.

As far as I see, the only thing that the README doesn't say is that these 
directories already come write-protected; every other aspect of this 
feature is described in detail.

Is the comment on the default setup what you lack?  If so, I didn't 
describe that on purpose: some (most?) unzippers ignore the read-only bit 
and unzip the directories without it (which unzip program did you use, 
btw?).  So I didn't want to lie about the default being magically 
arranged; instead I told that *if* you want that setup, you need to 
actually set the attribute manually.  I figured that setting it twice 
would be a lesser evil than telling it is already set when it might not 
be so.  I also thought that those who add additional fonts usually 
know better what they are doing (like you did) and will be able to figure 
it out on their own.

I'm open to suggestions about how to fix all this mess in a better way.

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