X-VM-v5-Data: ([nil nil nil nil nil nil nil nil nil] ["1304" "Mon" "13" "December" "1999" "08:25:51" "+0200" "P.W.Daly, MPAe, Lindau, Germany" "daly@LINPWD.MPAE.GWDG.DE" nil "26" "Re: TEX on Win 9x" "^Date:" nil nil "12" nil "TEX on Win 9x" nil nil nil] nil) Return-Path: Received: via tmail-4.1(11) (invoked by user schoepf) for schoepf; Mon, 13 Dec 1999 08:26:04 +0100 (MET) Received: from mail.Uni-Mainz.DE (trudi.zdv.Uni-Mainz.DE [134.93.8.159]) by mailserver1.zdv.Uni-Mainz.DE (8.9.1b+Sun/8.9.1) with ESMTP id IAA28208 for ; Mon, 13 Dec 1999 08:26:03 +0100 (MET) Received: from mail.listserv.gmd.de (mail.listserv.gmd.de [192.88.97.5]) by mail.Uni-Mainz.DE (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id IAA20292 for ; Mon, 13 Dec 1999 08:26:02 +0100 (MET) Received: from mail.listserv.gmd.de (192.88.97.5) by mail.listserv.gmd.de (LSMTP for OpenVMS v1.1a) with SMTP id <4.2424153E@mail.listserv.gmd.de>; Mon, 13 Dec 1999 8:25:56 +0100 Received: from RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE by RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE (LISTSERV-TCP/IP release 1.8b) with spool id 445404 for LATEX-L@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE; Mon, 13 Dec 1999 08:25:09 +0100 Received: from relay.uni-heidelberg.de (relay.uni-heidelberg.de [129.206.100.212]) by relay.urz.uni-heidelberg.de (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id IAA25345 for ; Mon, 13 Dec 1999 08:25:07 +0100 (MET) Received: from linpwd (linpwd.mpae.gwdg.de [134.76.28.202]) by relay.uni-heidelberg.de (8.9.1b+Sun/8.9.1) with SMTP id IAA06658 for ; Mon, 13 Dec 1999 08:25:39 +0100 (MET) X-VMS-To: SMTP%"LATEX-L@urz.uni-heidelberg.de" X-VMS-Cc: DALY Message-ID: <99121308255106@linpwd.mpae.gwdg.de> Reply-To: Mailing list for the LaTeX3 project Date: Mon, 13 Dec 1999 08:25:51 +0200 From: "P.W.Daly, MPAe, Lindau, Germany" Sender: Mailing list for the LaTeX3 project To: Multiple recipients of list LATEX-L Subject: Re: TEX on Win 9x Status: R X-Status: X-Keywords: X-UID: 3452 Freeware for tex under win32? MikTeX is not the only one. I use fptex which is Fabrice Popineau's WIN32 installation of Karl Berry's web2c tex system. For unix freaks, this means fptex is tetex for windows. I used MikTeX a few years ago when it was new and found it acceptable, although there were a few minor things that bothered me. Fptex did not have these, so I switched. Fptex supports all the extra software that one expects of a full tex installation, including pdftex, tex4ht, and many others that I do not use. I can only recommend it heartily. Available on ctan under systems/win32/fptex or from the source ftp.ese-metz.fr/pub/tex/win32 By the way, I have only heard good things about MikTeX so I do not want to criticise it at all. I just do not have any more experience with it myself and the things that bothered me long ago were really minor and may even no longer be there. Regards, Patrick ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Dr. Patrick W. Daly Tel. [+49] 5556-979-279 Max-Planck-Institut fuer Aeronomie Fax. [+49] 5556-979-240 Max-Planck-Str. 2 D-37191 Katlenburg-Lindau Internet: daly@linmpi.mpg.de Germany -----------------------------------------------------------------------------