[fptex] fpTeX and Cygwin

Guy Worthington guyw@multiline.com.au
Mon, 26 Feb 2001 21:03:53 +0800


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Cygwin's bash is my preferred shell, and although I don't use LaTeX, I
did just run "latex sample2e" without any trouble.  I'm running Win2K.

I have added mount point /MyDocuments pointing to the tree holding my
data files this was done as follows:

mount -s -b c:/Documents\ and\ Settings/guyw/My\ Documents /MyDocuments

I also have a mount point /guyw/home pointing to where the environment
variable HOME is pointing.

mount -s -b c:/Documents\ and\ Settings/guyw/Local\Settings/Home/guyw/home

Attached is my cygwin.bat, which is in the c:\cygwin directory,
.bash_profile, .bashrc, .cdpath, and .path which are in my HOME
directory.

To run sample2e.tex, all that was required was copying the file
sample2e.tex from c:/local/tex/texmf/tex/latex/base to /MyDocuments
using the command:

cp /cygdrive/c/local/tex/texmf/tex/latex/base/sample2e.tex /MyDocuments

Changing directory to /MyDocuments and then compiling sample2e.tex
twice with the commands

cd /MyDocuments
latex sample2e
latex sample2e
windvi sample2e

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