installation comments on 3e-zip...

[ALAN A DUNWELL]

Howdy Jody,

Thanks for filling in for Fabrice here with your good information. 
This clarifies some points.

I must still take exception with your reply on the <CR><LF> issue 
below. It is a false assumption to assume that all TeX-folk are ipso 
facto gurus (guruettes?) and wouldn't grub about with notepad. I'm 
proof of that <g>. I am the software manager in charge of 
installing such programs, but I don't actually use them much. Not 
all installers, particularly in DOS/Win, will be up to snuff in 
this area. The reason that I was hunting around was because I did not 
find a top level ReadMe type file with instructions on how to 
proceed. I'm sure this will exist in later iterations, this is after 
all still beta mode. However, it is not unreasonable to expect a 
DOS/Win based issued program to have files consistent with that 
platform, regardless of what editor one might use. My intent was just 
to point this out, not take Fabrice to task in any way. Thanks again 
for your info on these issues, this clarifies some of the differences 
of approach between the UNIX and Win platforms.

Alan

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> Date:          Thu, 10 Jun 1999 14:48:29 -0700
> From:          Jody Klymak <jklymak@apl.washington.edu>
> Subject:       RE: installation comments on 3e-zip...
> To:            DUNWELL@jila.colorado.edu, fptex@tug.org

> 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
> 
> ***************************************************************
> Jody Klymak                         APL/School of Oceanography,
>                                     University of Washington
> mailto:jklymak@apl.washington.edu   (206)-685-9080
> http://www.ocean.washington.edu/people/grads/jklymak/
> 
> 

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