Win2000/XP woes of the world -- or not? [was `Re: dvipsone support...]

[Christina Thiele]

Robin Fairbairns writes:
>
> ...
> > Sometimes the cure is worse than the disease. Can anyone tell me how to get
> > WINEDT to access DVIPSONE instead of DVIPS? Or even find out what it really

Is it at all possible that, just as the solution for accessing BibTeX
lay in finding the .ini file for WINEDT and making an edit in there,
that DVIPSONE is also invoked in that same file? I'm just
wondering... I don't have winedt set up on here, so can't check. But
it _sounds_ a reasonable place to poke, no?

> > is doing? Though I am not a computer illiterate, I am not terribly
> > comfortable in a Windows environment.

You and me both! I may not understand how the unixbox works but I sure
like it a heck of a lot better than Windows ;-)

But it's a fact of life that even I have had to live with (notice I
did not actually say `accept' ;-)). It seems so much harder in Windows
... and it is -- my husband's my in-house unix-sysadmin guy ... but
the PC is pretty much my problem. Y&YTeX has made me learn a heck of a
lot more than I ever wanted ... ;-)

> we might be able to help here (though not me).  however, if you're
> thoroughly into the groove of using dvips, you might find switching to
> dvipsone a bit of a wrench.  as you said, if it ain't broke, don't fix
> it.
>
> > I am running on Windows98, and after
> > reading all your email, would be loath to upgrade to WINDOWS2000.
>
> you may not have a choice if you need to upgrade the computer...
> fwiw, i don't believe it's *everyone* has trouble with w2k/wxp, but
> unless people pipe up and tell us all, it's hard to be sure.

I think I've mentioned before that one does need to keep in mind that
no-one really posts to techsupport if they have no problems ;-) This
list is, by definition, where trouble is vocalised. And in the main,
we seem to see that OS upgrades to Win2000/XP followed by a Y&YTeX
re-install doesn't always go as expected ... for example, forgetting
that the fonts have to be re-installed too (at least, as far as I
understand it).

But back to trepidation and OS upgrades ... I myself will have to face
this fairly soon. My laptop's running NT4.0 and I'm afraid Y&Y v.2.2
is running much more slowly than 2.1. And the laptop's from 1998 or
99, so it's no longer really all that great. So either I stay with
NT4.0 and add memory and anything else helpful to an `older machine'
;-) or I bite the bullet, invest in new hardware, and then plunge into
XP Pro, I guess (probably more likely than Win2000).

So yes, there's angst -- although mine's there most anytime `change'
is involved, whether it's Y&YTeX or anything else on the laptop: I
just want things to work and I hate being detoured from that by having
to pay attention to things under and behind the keyboard. But that's
what this list is for -- getting through the angst, and
aggravation. So you guys had better all be around when NT4.0 goes to
heaven and XP Pro tries out its `Hello, I'm from hell' line ;-))

> Robin Fairbairns
>
> Y&Y support team
>

Ch.