[Mac OS X TeX] A simple question and a comment

[Wendy McKay]

I would be interested in seeing the details posted.
Thanks for the offer.

wendy mckay


On Thu, 3 May 2001, Tom Kiffe wrote:

> 1) What is the MIME type and creator and type codes for .dmg files? I am trying
> to configure IE on OS X to download TeXShop.dmg correctly. All I get right
> now is a SimpleText document.
> 
> The default installation of teTeX places the teTeX folder in /usr/local/teTeX.
> I placed the teTeX folder in /Local/Library and then did a symlink from
> /Local/Library/teTeX to /usr/local/teTeX. This allows me to access the
> texmf tree from the Finder and I can easy modify any files in this tree with
> BBEdit 6.1. In addition I can use the teTeX texmf tree with CMacTeX and do not
> need a separate separate texmf tree for CMacTeX, saving about 40 MB of disk space.
> TeXShop works correctly and I can run teTeX by itself from a Terminal.
> 
> If any one is interested I can post the details of what I did and show you how
> to compile and install teTeX from the sources on CTAN. Since pdftex is still
> in development and is being updated regularly it is important to have the latest version of pdftex, which means building it yourself from the sources. The latest
> version of pdftex dates from 4/17. I don't know which version of pdftex is
> included in the teTeX distribution from TeXShop.
> 
> Tom Kiffe
> 
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