GSTools , UNC path naming not supported,?, and WinEdit...

[ALAN A DUNWELL]

I did an install of the beta and pointed the file destination to be 
onto our NT File server machine. I used a UNC naming convention. 
While most of the install may have gone OK (see second and third 
items) at least the documentation does not seem to be working. 

- When I start the fptex Documentation from my program menu, it 
starts Netscape and finds 
   \\JILANT\APPS\WIN32\FPTEX\TEXMF\DOC\HTML\FPTEX\FPTEX~1.HTM
the main page. However, when I try to access any of the items on that 
page I get an error message such as
   Netscape is unable to find the file or directory named:
    //JILANT/APPS/WIN32/FPTEX/TEXMF/DOC/HTML/FPTEX/fptexse2.html
(Note that it is using all forward slashes as if UNIX, perhaps an 
issue. Perhaps it does not like the UNC naming rather than a drive 
letter.)

- since I already have ghostview and gstools installed, I elected to 
not install these. However I got a message saying that the install 
noted that I hadn't select them, so it would install them for me 
anyway. I assume that this is because the main file for my 
installation of gs are over on the network drive, not on my C: 
drive. When the ghost* installation started, I deselected everything 
and it finally exited with a message that the gs install had failed. 
Why did it not just skip the whole thing?

- When the WinEdit tried to install, it failed with an Error 2 and 
dropped me back to the main desktop. 

I now see only four items on the program menu
   Maintenance folder with three items
   fpTeX Documentation
   fpTeX Help Index
   Windvi Viewer
Should there be an item(s) for fptex itself? Since I can not access 
the documentation and there was not readme file I am not sure if this 
is correct or not. If so, how does one start fptex?

- one last item/suggestion. Although the install stated that it 
modified the autoexec.bat file, that file was not documented as to 
the change. Perhaps a line such as
  rem Next line added by fpTeX
  HOME=C:
would fit better with normal autoexec.bat modification protocol.

Alan Dunwell

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