[texhax] installation of TEX

[Reinhard Kotucha]

>>>>> "Barbara" == Barbara Beeton <bnb at ams.org> writes:

  > this may not be the correct answer either, but i know that there
  > are quite a few files on ctan that have the extension .doc (more
  > than 300) -- which also happens to be the extension for word
  > files.

I don't think that .doc files are the problem.  CTAN, tug.org, and TeX
distributions nowadays provide all documentation as .pdf, .dvi, or
.ps.  On the servers there are also some files in html.

I guess that the problem is that Windows hides filename extensions by
default.

Regards,
  Reinhard

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