X-VM-v5-Data: ([nil nil nil nil nil nil nil nil nil] ["298" "Mon" "13" "December" "1999" "22:39:47" "+0530" "Johara Shahabuddin" "sjohara@IN.IBM.COM" nil "11" "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 07:35:26 +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 HAA27860 for ; Mon, 13 Dec 1999 07:35:25 +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 HAA08924 for ; Mon, 13 Dec 1999 07:35:24 +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 <1.116BAA27@mail.listserv.gmd.de>; Mon, 13 Dec 1999 7:35:18 +0100 Received: from RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE by RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE (LISTSERV-TCP/IP release 1.8b) with spool id 445389 for LATEX-L@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE; Mon, 13 Dec 1999 07:34:34 +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 HAA20539 for ; Mon, 13 Dec 1999 07:34:28 +0100 (MET) Received: from ausmtp02.au.ibm.com (ausmtp02.au.ibm.COM [202.135.136.105]) by relay.uni-heidelberg.de (8.9.1b+Sun/8.9.1) with ESMTP id HAA04115 for ; Mon, 13 Dec 1999 07:35:08 +0100 (MET) Received: from f03n05e.au.ibm.com by ausmtp02.au.ibm.com (IBM AP 1.0) with ESMTP id RAA42746 for ; Mon, 13 Dec 1999 17:26:57 +1100 Received: from d73mta05.au.ibm.com (f06n05s [9.185.166.67]) by f03n05e.au.ibm.com (8.8.8m2/8.8.7) with SMTP id RAA45938 for ; Mon, 13 Dec 1999 17:34:59 +1100 Received: by d73mta05.au.ibm.com(Lotus SMTP MTA v4.6.5 (863.2 5-20-1999)) id CA256846.002428D2 ; Mon, 13 Dec 1999 17:34:57 +1100 X-Lotus-FromDomain: IBMIN@IBMAU Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Message-ID: Reply-To: Mailing list for the LaTeX3 project Date: Mon, 13 Dec 1999 22:39:47 +0530 From: Johara Shahabuddin Sender: Mailing list for the LaTeX3 project To: Multiple recipients of list LATEX-L Subject: TEX on Win 9x Status: R X-Status: X-Keywords: X-UID: 3453 hi, the only freeware i found on the net for using tex on windows 9x, was miktex. how good is it? what else do i need to download for everything to work: figures, ghostscript, spellcheck, dvi type command, etc? how good is it: i.e., do you recommend using it or trying to buy vtex? thanks, jo.