Date: Tue, 10 Nov 1998 16:29:42 +0200 (IST) From: Eli Zaretskii X-Sender: eliz AT is To: RJ vd Boon cc: djgpp AT delorie DOT com Subject: Re: ANNOUNCE: TeX/Web2c v7.2b ported and uploaded In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Reply-To: djgpp AT delorie DOT com On Tue, 10 Nov 1998, RJ vd Boon wrote: > I've read it completely (twice), I only didn't notice any word like: > "by default the TEXMF and TEXMF/fonts are read-only" It might be > usefull to cut and paste the little explenation to TeX.README. As far as I see, the only thing that the README doesn't say is that these directories already come write-protected; every other aspect of this feature is described in detail. Is the comment on the default setup what you lack? If so, I didn't describe that on purpose: some (most?) unzippers ignore the read-only bit and unzip the directories without it (which unzip program did you use, btw?). So I didn't want to lie about the default being magically arranged; instead I told that *if* you want that setup, you need to actually set the attribute manually. I figured that setting it twice would be a lesser evil than telling it is already set when it might not be so. I also thought that those who add additional fonts usually know better what they are doing (like you did) and will be able to figure it out on their own. I'm open to suggestions about how to fix all this mess in a better way.