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: <3A9F161C.352F6D70@Wanadoo.fr> Date: Fri, 02 Mar 2001 04:40:12 +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: 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> <86vgpt10hk.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 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. I guess it partially works, let me be more precise: 1] can you compose linked tex sources ? 2] can you export/import environment variables ? 3] can you see the Cygwin mount ? > > 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 -- Want to unsubscribe from this list? Check out: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple