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Date: Mon, 26 Feb 2001 06:31:11 +0100
From: Jerome BENOIT <JGMBenoit AT Wanadoo DOT fr>
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Subject: Re: fpTeX and Cygwin
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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

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