fptex-0.4 and internet stuff warning

[Fabrice Popineau]

Some of you may know that I have added a nice feature to the texsetup
program, namely the ability to download things from the internet.

There were 2 reasons to do so:
- some packages are not free and couldn't be put on the texlive 5 cd,
- it is nice to be able to update his own installation from the
internet

But doing so in the standard Microsoft way turned out to be a
nightmare for people running Win95. I'm afraid it is a bit late to
completely solve the issue for fptex-0.4 . I have provided a
workaround with the wintdist.exe file that should be run _only if you
have an old win95, and you do not have IE3.02 or later_. This file
upgrades system dll to the ones in IE3.02, but it really only a
workaround (only a few dlls are updated).

The real solution for fptex-0.4 si : upgrade your system to IE4.0 or
later. Don't forget that half of your system is in the dlls of
internet explorer. You gain a newer system in doing so. And IE5.0 is
quite nice.

The other solution is to switch  from Microsoft programming to libwww,
but that's more work to me, and I need to look at it to be sure I will
not find other problems. If it turns to be easy enough, I might switch
to  it because all the stuff   to download and  install packages could
then be portable to unix. But it will be  only for the next release of
texsetup.

-- 
Fabrice Popineau