Date: Mon, 11 Aug 1997 23:54:54 +0000 ( ) From: "Gurunandan R. Bhat" To: "M. Schulter" Cc: djgpp AT delorie DOT com Subject: Re: DJGPP Web2c TeX (was: Is the world dropping MS-DOS?) In-Reply-To: <5t58gt$ado$1@vnetnews.value.net> Message-Id: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Precedence: bulk > First, please let me emphasize that I've heard great things about EmTeX > from very knowledgeable TeX users, and that the rest of what I have say > shouldn't in any way detract from that achievement. Yes Emtex is a truly awesome achievement. If memory serves, I started using it about 5/6 years ago. The first versions were a little difficult to configure, but that is a thing of the past now. It now has an install program (in beta, I think) that worked flawlessly for me. It is also well on its way to becomming a compleat word-processing environment not very different from the way that DJGPP is on its way (some, including me would hazard that its already there) to be THE programming environment for MSDOS. Why then do I celebrate the texk port to the DJGPP platform? For two reasons: 1) EmTex uses emx to extend MSDOS as opposed to DPMI 2) The sources are public domain On the down side, the texk port needs some utilities especially for previewing (I am currently working on one). Users of EmTeX pampered by the extremely power-packed previewer will find the options of dvivga a bit limiting (Eli has called it a "quick hack"). I dream of the day when I am able to rename c:\djgpp\bin to c:/bin/