<HTML><BODY style="word-wrap: break-word; -khtml-nbsp-mode: space; -khtml-line-break: after-white-space; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial">Hello experts,</FONT><DIV><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial"><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></FONT></DIV><DIV><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial">First of all, a big THANK YOU to </FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#222222"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial">Akira Kakuto who ported XeTeX to Microsoft Windows. From his site at </FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial"><A href="http://www.fsci.fuk.kindai.ac.jp/kakuto/win32-ptex/web2c75-e.html">http://www.fsci.fuk.kindai.ac.jp/kakuto/win32-ptex/web2c75-e.html</A> I downloaded did the following:</FONT></FONT></FONT></DIV><DIV><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial"><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></FONT></DIV><DIV><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial">(1) Created a directory c:\usr\local</FONT></DIV><DIV><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial">(2) Unzipped texinst755.zip locally and dragged all of the subdirectories/files into c:\usr\local</FONT></DIV><DIV><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial">(3) Downloaded all of the following into a separate download directory (c:\downloads\xetex):</FONT></DIV><DIV><SPAN class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </SPAN><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial">dvipdfm-w32.tar.gz</FONT></DIV><DIV><SPAN class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </SPAN><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial">latex.tar.gz</FONT></DIV><DIV><SPAN class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </SPAN><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial">manual.tar.gz</FONT></DIV><DIV><SPAN class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </SPAN><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial">mftools.tar.gz.gz</FONT></DIV><DIV><SPAN class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </SPAN><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial">pdftex-w32.tar.gz</FONT></DIV><DIV><SPAN class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </SPAN><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial">platex.tar.gz</FONT></DIV><DIV><SPAN class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </SPAN><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial">ptex-3.1.10-w32.tar.gz</FONT></DIV><DIV><SPAN class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </SPAN><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial">web2c-7.5.5-lib.tar.gz</FONT></DIV><DIV><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial">(4) From within c:\usr\local ran: texinst755 c:/downloads/xetex</FONT></DIV><DIV><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial">(5) In Microsoft Windows XP Professional SP2; Control Panel -> System -> Advanced -> added to 'Path' c:\usr\local</FONT></DIV><DIV><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial">(6) Put xetex-w32.tar.bz2 in c:\usr\local and ran from within that directory: tar jxvf xetex-w32.tar.bz2</FONT></DIV><DIV><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial">(7) Edited ..\share\texmf\fonts\conf\fonts.conf so the only font directory pointed to was <dir>c:/windows/fonts</dir></FONT></DIV><DIV><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial">(8) Installed my needed OpenType/TrueType fonts in C:\WINDOWS\fonts and searched for the directory containing fc-cache, navigated into that position from the command line and ran the command: fc-cache -f -v</FONT></DIV><DIV><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial">(9) Within c:\usr\local\ a directory structure of TeX scripts which ran on MacOS were installed and an attempt made to run them. </FONT></DIV><DIV><SPAN class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </SPAN><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial">It was interesting that the forward slash (/) was need for all file references...as opposed to the typical Microsoft Windows backward slash</FONT></DIV><DIV><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial">(10) All seemed to run relatively well the first time (even a message indicating that the PDF file of 67 pages had been created).</FONT></DIV><DIV><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial">(11) Unfortunately the pdf file was no where to be found. Invariably, however, on that and subsequent reruns an error message came up (sometimes before the end of the run and sometimes after the PDF output message) in a 16 bit MS-DOS Subsystem window: Command Prompt- ..\bin\xetex 41 Matt.tex; The NTVDM CPU has encountered an illegal instruction.; CS:0000 IP:011b OP:f0 19 e8 00 f0 Choose 'Close' to terminate the application. </FONT></DIV><DIV><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial"><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></FONT></DIV><DIV><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial"> It would appear that the system is having problems writing the PDF file to disk...presumably due to the path name. Is there anything I can do to help it along to avoid the error?</FONT></DIV><DIV><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial"><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></FONT></DIV><DIV><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial">Hopefully,</FONT></DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>Maurice</DIV><DIV><BR></DIV></BODY></HTML>