Re: TeX Live

["Frans Goddijn" <frans@iaf.nl>]

Michal wrote me:

From: "Michal Kvasnicka" <qasar@econ.muni.cz>
> Do you mean TeXLive 5? For Windoze? Hm...
>
> There's a very ugly feature. If the space on disk
> is too small to install it, it DOESN'T die--instead
> it CONTINUES with smiley face. (I don't know what
> it does.) Therefore some important parts of the system
> may be non-installed and you have no change to notice.

I was lucky... the laptop had 10 gigabyte so there was no way that the
installer could fill that up in one go. The autodownload took quite a while
and seemed to be successful. I tried if I could call PERL from a command
line and to my great surprise it worked. A simple test file gave a strange
error message:

\\\\\\\\\\\\\
(c:/Local/TeX/texmf/tex/context/base/cont-new.tex
systems        : beware: some patches loaded from cont-new.tex!
! TeX capacity exceeded, sorry [number of strings=100].
<recently read> \endcsname
...

[...]
l.302   [\??ks]

If you really absolutely need more capacity,
you can ask a wizard to enlarge me.
/////////////

So I need to look into the texmf.cnf and change things there and try again.

I did "texexec --make" which went great so the system works better than the
stuff I installed myself on my main machine...

> To be even worse, the install program downloads some
> stuff on the disk first, and deletes it as it finishes.
> The result is that there is some free space on the disk
> at the end of the installation (more then 30MB in my
> case).

You mean that space is an unusable blocked but empty/redundant piece of hard
disk after installation?

I must also find out how/where to insert the latest ConTeXt update, but I
seem to remember there is/was some small manual in PDF format by Hans Hagen
about the issue on their web site.

Groet!

Frans