[fptex] 0.7 released

[LUK ShunTim]

Fabrice Popineau wrote:

> Now that the TeXLive 2003 is over, I have packaged fptex-0.7 and it is
> avalaible from ftp://ftp.dante.de/pub/fptex/current/ .
> 

I installed a minimalist version (tex, latex and pdftex) and it worked 
perfectly. Thanks very much!

> It will probably be the last version of fptex per-se : TeXLive is
> available as a 'live' version but also as an 'inst' version which holds
> the same .zip files as fptex does.
> 
> The future will be to switch the TeXLive installer to an MSI based installer
> (Microsoft dedicated installer system). This may result in a fptex-0.7.1
> version.
> 

I don't know what is the advantage of a MSI installer. They often litter 
and clutter the system directory and registry, leaving a lot of mostly 
useless stuff behind.

Regards,
ST
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