Compatibility of WinDVI 0.63 with MiKTeX 1.20b

[Prof Brian D Ripley]

On Sun, 20 Jun 1999, Eli Zaretskii wrote:

> 
> On Fri, 18 Jun 1999, Cho, Jin-Hwan wrote:
> 
> > Case I. At first I have a dos prompt, and run "windvi xxx" on the dos
> >         prompt. After that, in the same dos prompt, run "latex xxx".
> >         In this case, there is no problem.
> > 
> > Case II. If I use WinEdt32 instead of dos prompt, there is problem
> >          always.
> > 
> > Case III. At first run "windvi xxx" on the dos prompt same as Case I.
> >           Runnung "latex xxx" does not cause any problem. Run WinEdt32
> >           without openning TeX file. Rerunning "latex xxx" in dos
> >           prompt cause problem. Now close WinEdt32 and rerun "latex xxx"
> >           in dos prompt again. Then the same problem occurs again.
> 
> This sounds a lot like some problem with two programs that try to open
> the same file.  Yes, I know Fabrice said that he closes the file, but
> it might be a good idea to make sure Windows knows about that ;-)
> 
> I have a small program that enumerates all files open in the system,
> including files open by all applications and by the OS.  It reports
> all files with the mode they were open, so you could guess what
> program did that by looking at the mode bits.
> 
> This program was tested on Windows 9X, so if the above happens on
> Windows 95 or 98, I can send the binary to whoever wants it.  It
> will not work on NT.

A nice graphical version of such a program that runs under 9x or NT was/is
available from www.sysinternals.com.

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