[yandytex] Fwd: Install disc for Y&Y 2.2

[Jochen Autschbach]

I sent the email below in return to the original posting. In my opinion it's better not to use the install disk if one has access to a working YandY TeX installation. 

Jochen

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Dear Milton

if you have access to the HD with the original installation there is no need for using the install disk.

a) copy c:\yandy including all sub directories over to the new computer (I usually use a ZIP file)
b) from c:\windows\fonts retrieve all *.pfm and *.PFB related to the YandY installation and put them in a temporary directory (NOT c:\windows\fonts) on the new machine. Alternatively, copy all font files.
c) copy c:\windows\dviwindo.ini from the old to the new machine
d) Install the YandY Fonts from the temporary directory using the Windows Font installer, by pointing it to the temp location of the font files.
e) if you have ATMFONTS.MAP in c:\windows\fonts you should also copy it over to the other machine.

I think that's all. A reboot might be in order.

I've done this at least 3 times already and it works just fine.

Best regards
Jochen


--- On Tue, 7/22/08, Christina Thiele <christina_thiele at carleton.ca> wrote:

> From: Christina Thiele <christina_thiele at carleton.ca>
> Subject: Re: [yandytex] [?? Probable Spam]   Fwd: Install disc for Y&Y 2.2
> To: software at ecker-text.de
> Cc: yandytex at tug.org, MiltonSlaughter at gmail.com
> Date: Tuesday, July 22, 2008, 7:06 AM
> HD Ecker wrote:
>  > Hi,
>  > leaving aside the question why you prefer to use
> Vista (instead of
>  > trying to stay with XP, and make some sort of disc
> image from your old
>  > computer), I'd be happy to search in the depths
> of my bureau for 2.2's
>  > install disc [it *must* be somewhere], and make a
> copy available to you
>  > ---- but only if I receive, before this, some
> positive declaration from
>  > someone "official" of the Y&Y
> "environment" that this would be okay.
>  >
>  > I hope you understand my hesitating...
>  >
>  > All the best to you,
>  > HD Ecker.
>  >
>  > - - -
>  >
>  > ...
> 
> 
> A small detail to perhaps consider in this potential
> exchange of 2.2
> discs ...
> 
> Over the years of being on this list, it's become clear
> that versions
> of Y&Y TeX differ significantly even if they're all
> listed as `version
> 2.2'. There's a third digit that makes all the
> difference.
> 
> It's not usually on the documentation but if you look
> in the .log
> file, in the top lines there should be a specific reference
> to
> it. Here's one I pulled out of an ancient (2004) mail
> message to the
> former `techsupport' list we were running ...
> 
>     Y&Y TeX 2.2.4 2001 Sep 14 07:07:38 SN 5046
> 
> And if I'm not mistaken, there's also a line
> somewhere in the
> dviwindo.ini file which also gives the explicit
> subsubversion number.
> 
> The reason this is important is because the last
> distributed version,
> 2.2.8, had a number of installation problems. While not
> insurmountable
> (I myself did manage to get through them all, but I tell
> you -- I
> learned more than I was willing to!), a slightly
> `younger' iteration
> of the 2.2.* series might be easier to deal with.
> 
> Something to consider when working with version 2.2.* ...
> 
> Ch.
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
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