[tex-live] Pause option for TLMGR --help

David Kastrup dak at gnu.org
Fri Sep 5 17:43:16 CEST 2008


"Victor Ivrii" <vivrii at gmail.com> writes:

> On Fri, Sep 5, 2008 at 11:15 AM, Heiko Oberdiek
> <oberdiek at uni-freiburg.de> wrote:
>> On Fri, Sep 05, 2008 at 02:48:45PM +0100, Philip TAYLOR wrote:
>>
>>> Ah, different philosophy, Manuel : in the Windows
>>> world, each program is (expected to be) self-contained,
>>> so each would (in an ideal world) provide paging
>>> by itself rather than being dependent on being
>>> executed as part of a chain ...
>>> ** Phil.
>>
>> Then you shouldn't use TeX, it isn't self-contained, because
>> it does not include neither an editor nor an viewer. ;-)
>
> nor mouse and keyboard drivers... Wait for a moment, does MSW include
> them?

I think the programs in the Windows world are not expected to be
dependent on being executed as part of a chain because they are supposed
to come with their own balls and chains.

-- 
David Kastrup


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