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 To: Corinna Vinschen Subject: Re: fpTeX and Cygwin References: <86n1badyca.fsf@bock.chem.unc.edu> <3A99B4F7.CF733C21@Wanadoo.fr> <86elwmdun8.fsf@bock.chem.unc.edu> <3A99EA1F.BE6E78E8@Wanadoo.fr> User-Agent: XEmacs/Gnus X-Attribution: yogi X-Face: -%Z4EZ6iY'4m:wiK:!v Organization: University of North Carolina Date: 01 Mar 2001 19:24:39 -0500 Message-ID: <86vgpt10hk.fsf@bock.chem.unc.edu> Lines: 35 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii >>>>> Jerome BENOIT wrote on Mon, 26 Feb 2001 06:31:11 +0100: >> >> 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:) Jerome> I don't understand: Jerome> 1] only TeX (and its friends) files have to be compatible, I have a whole bunch of machines that should be as similar as possible. All are running fpTeX. Jerome> 2] cygwin is unix-like, so portable: you can use customary Jerome> tools (as GNUMake,...) Sure. I actually have a full Cygwin install on one of these machines. Jerome> Have you try Linux for your slow machine ? Oh, I'd love to run Linux on here. Unfortunately that is reserved for Alphas over here:( :)) Greetings, Jochen -- University of North Carolina phone: 919-962-1579 Department of Chemistry fax: 919-843-6041 Venable Hall CB#3290 Chapel Hill, NC 26599, USA -- Want to unsubscribe from this list? Check out: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple