fptex 0.4 installation

[Richard Stanton]

This may be something to do with Internet Explorer 5.5, but when I click on
the dante ftp link below, the listing is very strange. Directory names are
combined with file sizes and permissions...

Richard Stanton


> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-fptex@tug.org [mailto:owner-fptex@tug.org]On Behalf Of
> Fabrice Popineau
> Sent: Friday, September 22, 2000 12:06 AM
> To: Bob Howlett
> Cc: fptex mailing list
> Subject: Re: fptex 0.4 installation
>
>
> * Bob Howlett <bobh@maths.usyd.edu.au> writes:
>
> > wizard's page was "greyed out". Why is this?  (I probably would have
> > upgraded perl if it had just been a matter of clicking in the right
> > place.)
>
> These things are available only when you specify the --net-download
> option to TeXSetup. If you want to give it a new try, you can run:
>
> TeXSetup --net-download --add-package
>
> check the appropriate boxes in the 'supplement' collection.
> However, downloading Perl is a bit huge (> 10Mb). Win32 extensions and
> Tcl/Tk are packaged with it. You can grab this perl from
> ftp://ftp.dante.de/pub/fptex/supplementary
> You just need to adjust your PATH after unpacking it somewhere.
>
> > I discovered that I didn't get thumbpdf, even though I selected
> > "full installation". (No problem -- I got it separately -- but I was
> > surprised I didn't get it automatically).
>
> Thanks, I'll check it.
>
> --
> Fabrice
>
>