Well, this is off-topic for the list, but I'll followup anyway. > A few months ago I tried to install TeX on a Sun 5.8 and had an > awful time getting kpsewhich to work. I think I eventually fixed > it by altering some configuration files or shell variables or both. > I probably would have got nowhere with the WOSINDW two-headed file- > naming system. But when I recently installed TeX on my wife's > WOSINDW system, I used the automatic TeX downloader and had no problems.
Do you refer to MiKTeX, or what do you mean by "automatic TeX downloader"? > Kpsewhich on Solaris was a minor problem compared to the basic > installation. At CTAN I found all kinds of overlapping tarballs, > each with its own instructions. Is there a single, stable, > authoritative guide to installing TeX on Unix? Certainly! Use teTeX, see http://tug.cs.umb.edu/tetex/. /Mats _______________________________________________ TeX-music mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://sunsite.dk/mailman/listinfo/tex-music
