installation comments on 3e-zip...

[Jody Klymak]

Hi Alan,

Just to answer a couple of these for Fabrice (to save him the typing!):

> - Despite your comments that the -zip folder version was
> InstallShield, I did not find it to be so, just the files.

Many people just wanted the files w/o the InstallShield, so Fabrice
makes them available via .zip.

> - What is the reason for a folder of man pages? There is no man
> utility for Windows that I know of. Yes/No?

I believe a number of people spoke up and said that they use emacs'
ability to read man pages, so Fabrice left the man pages in.

> - Text files brought directly from a UNIX type machine, such as the
> one in info have bad line termination when brought to Win/DOS based
> machines. They have a <LF> termination, not <CR><LF>, so if you try
> to type them or view them in Notepad they are a mess. You can see
> them in WordPad since it adds in the <CR>.

Hmm, I kind of doubt that the kind of people who use TeX are going to be
grubbing around with the internals of files using Notepad.  Every other
decent editor takes care of this without problem.  I'd kind of hate for
Fabrice to feel obliged to run all his files through a <CR><LF> filter.

> - Installation onto an NT server for use by attached workstations
> seems to have gone OK. I am unable to check font creation to the
> $VARTEXFONT location until I learn how to make the texconfig or
> its equivilant work (previous post).

I'm not sure about this one.  I've never clearly understood how FPTeX
configures stuff.

Cheers,  Jody

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