Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@sourceware.cygnus.com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@sources.redhat.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@sources.redhat.com Message-ID: <3A99EA1F.BE6E78E8@Wanadoo.fr> Date: Mon, 26 Feb 2001 06:31:11 +0100 From: Jerome BENOIT X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.76 [en] (Win98; U) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Jochen =?iso-8859-1?Q?K=FCpper?= CC: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: fpTeX and Cygwin References: <86n1badyca.fsf@bock.chem.unc.edu> <3A99B4F7.CF733C21@Wanadoo.fr> <86elwmdun8.fsf@bock.chem.unc.edu> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Jochen Küpper wrote: > > >>>>> Jerome BENOIT wrote on Mon, 26 Feb 2001 02:44:23 +0100: > > Jerome> Jochen Küpper wrote: > > >> I try to use fpTeX within Cygwin. Several programs (including > >> kpsewich, dvips) work fine. latex itself, doesn't though: > > Jerome> You can build teTeX under Cygwin modulo minor change: > Jerome> all work fine even LaTeX ! > > Well, I try to avoid that for several reasons (incl. compatibility > with other machines over here not running cygwin:) I don't understand: 1] only TeX (and its friends) files have to be compatible, 2] cygwin is unix-like, so portable: you can use customary tools (as GNUMake,...) > > As this is a slow machine (Pentium 166:) > - Are there teTeX-binaries for cygwin available? As far as I know, unfortunarely NOT ! > - Is teTeX on cygwin as fast as fpTeX? I don't know `fpTeX': but it seems faster than MiKTeX. Have you try Linux for your slow machine ? Chucks, Jerome BENOIT -- Want to unsubscribe from this list? Check out: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple