From: Robert Hoehne <Robert DOT Hoehne AT Mathematik DOT TU-Chemnitz DOT DE>
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Subject: Re: TeX, Web2c, DVI drivers ported
Date: Thu, 03 Jul 1997 11:45:48 +0200
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Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> 
> This is to announce that the DJGPP port of TeX, Metafont and related

What a great thing. I was happy reading this, installed it yesterday
and it worked for the first time (of course after reading the
readme!!)

> Porting TeX and DVI drivers was a major undertaking, much more than

I can imagine so I will say thanks for doing the job.

> platforms.  In particular, the long filename support on Windows 95 is
> virtually untested (I don't have access to development system with
> Windows 95).  Please treat this port accordingly and report any
> problems on the DJGPP news group comp.os.msdos.djgpp first.  (If you

I will do the testing, because I'm using TeX mostly every
day and I have W95.

Maybe I will think in the future about adding support
for TeX in RHIDE similar to the current available
TeX-shell for emTeX.

Robert
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