fptex-0.4 beta1

[Jody M. Klymak]

Hullo, 

Is any of this mirrored on CTAN yet?  ese-metz seems to be down.  Or
else it is overloaded by all those 100 Mb downloads.

Thanks, 

Jody

>>>>> "FP" == Fabrice Popineau <Fabrice.Popineau@supelec.fr> writes:

    FP> Hi,

    FP> Now that TeXLive 5 is done, it is time for me to package
    FP> fptex-0.4. This is almost ready. However, it is huge.

    FP> You need :
    FP> ftp://ftp.ese-metz.fr/pub/tex/win32-beta/fptex-0.4-beta1/

    FP> under which you will find :

    FP> TeXSetup.exe The setup program tpm/ The packages description
    FP> files zip/ The level 1 and level 2 packages of TeXLive
    FP> setupw32/ Updates for older win9x systems and dlls, plus
    FP> supplementary free packages (netpbm, emacs, pfe, winshell,
    FP> texshell)

    FP> It is almost 100Mb. You can ommit 15Mb from
    FP> setupw32/emacs206.zip if you want. In fact you can ommit many
    FP> things and download only TeXSetup.exe and the tpm/
    FP> directory. Missing things should be downloaded from the net or
    FP> the program will silently fail to install them.

    FP> The level 3 packages of the TeXLive are available from the
    FP> texsetup program provided you have an active internet
    FP> connection and my web site is up !

    FP> More on this after the week end: I hope to be able to put up
    FP> new web pages to describe the installation process.

    FP> I do not intend to change the zip files, but only fix bugs in
    FP> the setup program, so if you take the pain to download the zip
    FP> files, it won't be lost.

    FP> The easiest way to down load this is probably using wget (or
    FP> getrigth or whatever gui tool) :

    FP> c:\>wget -t 0 -r -m -nH -np --cut-dirs=3
    FP> ftp://ftp.ese-metz.fr/pub/tex/win32-beta/fptex-0.4-beta1

    FP> wget.exe is available from
    FP> ftp://ftp.ese-metz.fr/pub/tex/win32-beta/wget.exe

    FP> A newer version of the installer might be able to check if
    FP> there is a more recent version of some package and offer to
    FP> download it.

    FP> Please report as much as you can about success or
    FP> failure. There is an extensive log file generated by
    FP> texsetup. In case you want to send it to me, please zip it
    FP> before !

    FP> Have fun,

    FP> -- Fabrice Popineau

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Jody Klymak                         APL/School of Oceanography,
Doctoral Candidate                  University of Washington
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