DVI previewer gone haywire (fwd)

[Christina Thiele]

Didn't notice that my reply was only going to Sue. Here's what I'd
sent her.

Ch.

Forwarded message:
> From cthiele Mon Nov  8 12:58:22 2004
> Subject: Re: [YANDYTEX] DVI previewer gone haywire
> To: jcm at lms.ac.uk
> Date: Mon, 8 Nov 2004 12:58:22 -0500 (EST)
> In-Reply-To: <no.id> from "LMS journals" at Nov 08, 2004 05:59:43 PM
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> LMS journals writes:
> >
> > Thanks to all, for various helpful messages
> >
> > I had a look at Dviwindo.ini, and right at the end it has an error message:
> > LastError=No font files
> > LastErrorTime=...
> >
> > As far as I can tell, the font files are all in Winnt, where they belong. I
> > tried taking an old dviwindo.ini and saving that as the current one (yes, I
> > have copied the existing one else where as backup), but that doesn't seem to
> > help.  That does seem to have the right things in the Default and
> > SourceDefaults lines.
>
> Hi there, Sue ... ;-) When you made the changes, did you re-install
> the fonts? I'm sorry if that's off the mark --I don't remember right
> now if you said you'd done that already or not ... Also, are the path
> names the same for all the bits and pieces that dviwindo lists?
>
> > If I uninstall, what will happen to any additional style files that I have
> > added to what was in the original installation?  Sorry to ask simple
>
> When I did an uninstall on my laptop (I was going from Y&YTeX v.2.1 to
> 2.2.3, and nervous as hell abou tit!), I noticed a lot of files were
> still in my c:\yandy tree. When I looked them more closely, I began to
> notice that they were newer files -- add-ons and upgrades I'd
> introduced after the initial installation. So I _think_ the answer is
> that anything _not_ part of the original installation is left in
> place. I believe someone once (or twice ;-) )explained to me that,
> during installation, there's a file somewhere that receives all the
> info on what's been installed. And so I think that when that program's
> uninstalled, the computer refers back to the original listing, and
> leaves behind anything not on that listing. Which is rather nice and
> kind and thoughtful and other things which I'd not have thought I'd
> say about a PC and its OS ... ;-))
>
> Now, what happens when a new Y&YTeX is installed into that c:\yandy
> tree ... I'm not sure. I believe I just copied out all the files left
> behind after my uninstall into some other folder, precisely because I
> wasn't sure what would happen if I left them there, and then installed
> the new version into the same folder name ... but if the uninstall was
> so kind as to leave them behind, perhaps the reinstall ignores their
> presence -- unless it actually includes it or has a more recent
> version, in which case, perhaps a dialog box pops up to say
> such-and-such a file already exists ... which would be a kind and nice
> thing to also do, right? ;-)) Dunno for sure.
>
> > questions -- I'm not technical... I just use the stuff
>
> Hear hear!
>
> > Sue
> >
> > ...
>
> Ch.
>
>