[fptex] TeXSetup and net

[Staszek Wawrykiewicz]

Hello Fabrice,

FP> The 1.0.6 one should allow you to install the previously remotely available
FP> packages without network connection. You need to reproduce the
FP> directory structure found on the ftp server, use 'getfptex full' to
FP> retrieve everything (huge).

I downloaded fptex/0.4 from CTAN and put it on CD for testing at home:
e:\fpte04d\setupw32\
    I contains 3 versions od TeXSetup.exe
e:\fpte04d\zip\
e:\fpte04d\tpm\
e:\fpte04d\full\

I started with the newest e:\fpte04d\setupw32\TeXSetup-1.0.6.exe,
installation failed very quickly, even texmf tree wasn't built, see
following fragments from .log (Windows98 SE)

TeXLive Setup Wizard Report

Date: Tuesday, January 23, 2001
Time: 20:00:07

	Source	    Dir: E:\FPTE04D
	Root	    Dir: c:\TeX
	Main  Texmf Dir: c:\TeX\texmf
	Local Texmf Dir: c:\TeX\texmf-local
	Extra Texmf Dir:
	Home  Texmf Dir: C:\Moje dokumenty\texmf
	Var   Texmf Dir: c:\TeX\texmf-var
	Var   Fonts Dir: c:\TeX\texmf-var\fonts

[selected packages section looks OK]

unzip E:\FPTE04D\setupw32\netpbm-1.2-win32.zip -d c:\TeX
   creating: c:\TeX/NetPBM/
   creating: c:\TeX/NetPBM/bin/
  inflating: c:\TeX/NetPBM/bin/asciitopgm.exe
  ...
  etc. OK installed

unzip E:\FPTE04D\setupw32\texshell.zip -d c:\TeX
   creating: c:\TeX/bin/
   creating: c:\TeX/bin/win32/
  inflating: c:\TeX/bin/win32/TeXShell.exe
  inflating: c:\TeX/bin/win32/TEXSHELL.HLP
  inflating: c:\TeX/bin/win32/TeXShell.ini
!!!Warning: package of level RECOMMENDED or lower not found!!!
!!!No net access, can't grab ftp://ftp.dante.de/pub/fptex/0.4/zip/etexbase.zip from the Internet!!!
!!!Warning: package of level RECOMMENDED or lower not found!!!
!!!No net access, can't grab ftp://ftp.dante.de/pub/fptex/0.4/zip/pdftex.zip from the Internet!!!
!!!Warning: package of level RECOMMENDED or lower not found!!!
!!!No net access, can't grab ftp://ftp.dante.de/pub/fptex/0.4/zip/catalogue.zip from the Internet!!!
etc. etc.
So I have only TeXShell and NetPBM installed. Note that I have all needed
zip/ and even full/

I started installation again, this time
texsetup-1.0.6.exe --source-directory=E:\fpte04d
because it perhaps should start from this level (not from
setupw32/ subdirectory). Nothing cured.
The same result as proviously. So even I have everything on disk,
texsetup always try to use net access.

Starting texsetup-1.0.5.exe also failed to install any TeX package.

I also tried to install on windows95, which already has changed
.dll files. Results as above.

How searching net can to be switch off at all?

The last question, on CTAN we have:
/tex-archive/systems/win32/fptex/0.4/setupw32/
/tex-archive/systems/win32/fptex/0.4/zip/
/tex-archive/systems/win32/fptex/0.4/tpm/
/tex-archive/systems/win32/fptex/0.4/full/  <-- this is empty, 
    perhaps should be here soft link to /pub/fptex/0.4/full/
    which contains files.

Greetings,

Staszek Wawrykiewicz
email: staw@gust.org.pl