[fptex] ConTeXt perl scripts failing on Win98

[George N. White III]

I finally got the replacement disk for a Win98(SE) system that died
testing ConTeXT on TL2003 pre-releases.  I've put on the fptex 0.7 from
CTAN (ftp:ctan.cms.math.ca) with files dated Jan 6th, and am back to the
problems I had in Sept. with texexec.pl failing to find texexec.ini.

If I hack texexec.pl where it loops thru the path components to set
$kpsewhich="kpsewhich" just before the call to found_ini_file("ini"), then
texexec.ini is found, but there are problems with other scripts
(texfont.pl).  If memory serves, changing the path to use "\"  instead of
"/" also worked.

TL2003 ConTeXt scripts worked for me on Win95, but that had too many
other problems.  Unfortunately, it looks like Win98 is going to be
around for a while, especially in the grad student community.

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George N. White III  <aa056 at chebucto.ns.ca>
  Head of St. Margarets Bay, Nova Scotia, Canada