From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.comp.tex.context/14376 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "George N. White III" Newsgroups: gmane.comp.tex.context Subject: Re: Perl scripts almost unusable under Win32 MiKTeX Date: Wed, 24 Dec 2003 10:13:03 -0400 Organization: Bedford Institute of Oceanography Sender: ntg-context-admin@ntg.nl Message-ID: References: <62164502.20031223101214@iol.it> Reply-To: ntg-context@ntg.nl NNTP-Posting-Host: deer.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1072275864 20376 80.91.224.253 (24 Dec 2003 14:24:24 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 24 Dec 2003 14:24:24 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: ntg-context-admin@ntg.nl Wed Dec 24 15:24:21 2003 Return-path: Original-Received: from ref.vet.uu.nl ([131.211.172.13] helo=ref.ntg.nl) by deer.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1AZ9vx-0001zR-00 for ; Wed, 24 Dec 2003 15:24:21 +0100 Original-Received: from ref.ntg.nl (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by ref.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2E71F10B53; Wed, 24 Dec 2003 15:24:13 +0100 (MET) Original-Received: from cod.mar.dfo-mpo.gc.ca (cod.mar.dfo-mpo.gc.ca [142.176.61.253]) by ref.ntg.nl (Postfix) with SMTP id 0015110B13 for ; Wed, 24 Dec 2003 15:15:28 +0100 (MET) Original-Received: id KAA12358; Wed, 24 Dec 2003 10:14:33 -0400 Original-Received: by gateway id <0HQE00HNEKRC84@bionet.bio.dfo.ca> for ntg-context@ntg.nl; Wed, 24 Dec 2003 10:11:36 -0400 (AST) In-reply-to: <62164502.20031223101214@iol.it> X-X-Sender: gwhite@montigo.bio.dfo.ca Original-To: ntg-context@ntg.nl Errors-To: ntg-context-admin@ntg.nl X-BeenThere: ntg-context@ntg.nl X-Mailman-Version: 2.0.13 Precedence: bulk List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Id: mailing list for ConTeXt users List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.comp.tex.context:14376 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.comp.tex.context:14376 On Tue, 23 Dec 2003, Giuseppe Bilotta wrote: > Recent ConTeXt updates have rendered some Perl scripts > (texshow.pl & modules) unusable under MiKTeX because they > heavily rely on web2c methods to find binaries and > complementary files. And probably under fptex (e.g., TeX Live 2003) if you have spaces in paths (I tried to eliminate spaces in paths when I ran into problems, so I don't know if the subsequent changes have fixed this). Fptex caches the kpathsea lists in shared memory, which is a big performance boost for slower machines on fat32 (but also comes with some caveates -- RTFM). The recent (Dec. 18th??) updates to fptex seem at long last to work properly on Win9x, Win2k, and WinXP. The TeX Live 2003 page has a link to the fptex update page, but the URL for the updates seems to have died with the recent prohibition against symbolic links, so you will want to edit the properties for Maintenance/Add packages to change the command line to use you favorite CTAN mirror, e.g.,: C:\texLive\bin\Win32\TeXSetup.exe --add-package --remote-source-directory ftp://ctan.cms.math.ca/tex-archive/systems/win32/fptex/0.7/. -- George N. White III Head of St. Margarets Bay, Nova Scotia, Canada