Compatibility of WinDVI 0.63 with MiKTeX 1.20b

[John Hillas]

This is not an answer to your question, but a question of my own.
What are the current differences between fpTeX and MiKTeX?

I tried both some time ago and both were very good.  I eventually
started using fpTeX because life was too full and busy to keep
two separate systems up to date and fpTeX was updating pdftex a
little more quickly at that time.  (Though my impression not
too long after was that this changed and MiKTeX also updated
pdftex within a very short tine of new releases of pdftex---I
stayed on the MiKTeX mailing list longer than I stayed using 
the distribution.)

My impression then was that the main differences between the 
distributions were 1) the dvi viewers, 2) fpTeX's close
relationship to teTeX, which is something of a standard on
UNIX, and 3) MiKTeX's ease of setup.  Since that time fpTeX 
has also a similar setup program.  So I'm a bit curious as to 
why someone would choose to use one of the distributions 
and the viewer from the other distribution.

Could readers of the MiKTeX list who have some view please 
cross post to the fptex list.  (And I suppose vice versa, in case 
anyone on the MiKTeX list is interested.)

Finally, my experience is that both of these distributions are 
excellent, and I'm very grateful to the authors of each.  The few 
comparisons I've seen made in the past have been made in a very fair
and indeed friendly way, and I trust this will continue.  (If 
only to prevent me for feeling guilty for raising the issue.)

> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-fptex@tug.org [mailto:owner-fptex@tug.org]On Behalf Of Cho,
> Jin-Hwan
> Sent: Thursday, 17 June 1999 00:58
> To: MiKTeX Mailing List; fpTeX Mailing List
> Subject: Compatibility of WinDVI 0.63 with MiKTeX 1.20b
> 
> 
> Dear MiKTeX and fpTeX users,
> 
> I have installed WinDVI 0.63 over MiKTeX 1.20b. Everything works
> fine but I found one problem, that is, I could not run LaTeX
> (of MiKTeX) properly when the window of WinDVI is alive and shows
> the dvi file. It complained that it could not write on the same dvi
> file and choose another name for dvi file. Same as we could not run
> PDFTeX or dvipdfm when Acrobat Reader 3.0x shows the pdf file.
> But there was no problem when I use LaTeX of fpTeX-0.3. I can
> remember that in ealier version of WinDVI, there was no problem
> with MiKTeX. Is it a problem of MiKTeX or WinDVI?
> 
> Best, ChoF.
> 
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