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<DIV>Vielen Dank auf diese ausführliche Antwort!</DIV>
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<DIV>Mit freundlichem Gruß,</DIV>
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<DIV>Karljürgen G. Feuerherm, PhD<BR>Department of Archaeology and Classical Studies<BR>Wilfrid Laurier University<BR>75 University Avenue West<BR>Waterloo, Ontario N2L 3C5<BR>Tel. (519) 884-1970 x3193<BR>Fax (519) 883-0991 (ATTN Arch. & Classics)<BR><BR>>>> Peter Dyballa <Peter_Dyballa@Web.DE> 09/09/2009 3:21 pm >>><BR><BR>Am 09.09.2009 um 19:33 schrieb Karljürgen Feuerherm:<BR><BR>> 1. I am currently using a Windows XP environment. I've been using<BR>> TeXMakerX to write my documents. Generally works well, a bit of a<BR>> problem with cursor placement at times, and not too good when I <BR>> used RTL<BR>> text (Hebrew in my case). TeXnicCenter is out, it seems, can't deal <BR>> with<BR>> Unicode (ideally I need to access Plane 1 as well as BMP). Can anyone<BR>> suggest additional alternatives I should consider?<BR><BR>TeXworks? <U><A href="http://tug.org/texworks/">http://tug.org/texworks/</A></U> <BR><BR>><BR>> 2. Between this and other things I wish to pursue (yacc, compilers,<BR>> etc.) seems like I should consider getting a hold of a Unix <BR>> environment.<BR>> Can someone tell me to what extent OS/X is Unix--dialect thereof, <BR>> clone,<BR>> will work or won't work like? Down the road I can either replace this<BR>> laptop with a Mac and/or I can set up a Linux box perhaps.... (I'm<BR>> finding resources for Windows in all cases pretty hard to come by...)<BR><BR><BR>Mac OS X is based on FreeBSD 5 and comes with many adapted GNU <BR>utilities. On the command line you can get a feeling of this. Mac OS <BR>X comes with a Developers Metapackage containing GCC, gmake, yacc, <BR>etc. And also X11. A MacBook Pro offers superbe hardware. It has a <BR>dual core processor. This means that you can run on one core some MS <BR>Losedos or Linux or Solaris or ... and on the other Mac OS X. Apple's <BR>Bootcamp software creates an environment with a BIOS instead of EFI. <BR>Parallels Desktop (http://www.parallels.com/) allows to run other <BR>operating systems, and now even VMware Fusion is available for the Mac!<BR><BR>Buy a Mac and you'll have MS, Linux, *and* Mac OS X!<BR><BR>--<BR>Mit friedvollen Grüßen<BR><BR>Pete<BR><BR>"What do you think of Western Civilisation?"<BR>"I think it would be a good idea!"<BR>Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi<BR><BR><BR><BR></DIV></BODY></HTML>