Because the TeX editor I use (Scientific Word) has no equivalent under linux 
(Lyx is very far from it for now). In fact this software is one of the main 
reasons why I keep Windows on my hardisk...

MY

On 16 Jul 2001, at 15:59, Viktor Lakics wrote:

> Just out of curiosity: 
> 
> Why do you need to run this kind of stuff under win98?  
> 
> Sorry for not being much of a help...:-))
> 
> Viktor
> 
> 
> "Murat Yildizoglu" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > Hi,
> > 
> > Now that I have a very nicely running Win4Lin installation (thanks again for
> 
> > 3.05), I am focusing on more particular problems. One of them is the 
> > impossibility of launching Dos batch files from Windows programs. Example:
> > 
> > I use a TeX editor from which I compile my documents through a menu item 
> > connected to a dos batch file that dvips it and preview it in ghostview. All
> 
> > this is used to work very nicely under native Windows 98SE.
> > 
> > If I try to push the same button under Win4Lin, I get a message telling that
> 
> > "C:command.com file does not exist" (please notice that the message gives 
> > C:command.com and not C:\command.com). Of course command.com is present in
> the 
> > root of my /win directory (and hence the C: drive in Win4Lin). If I open a
> dos 
> > box and run the batch file manually, it works). Why does tit not work
> directly 
> > from my application?
> > 
> > Any idea?
> > 
> > Best regards,
> > 
> > Murat
> > 
> > The content of the batch file is:
> > 
> > dvips -odviout.ps %1% 
> > copy dviout.ps D:\transit\distil\in
> > d:\gstools\gsview\gsview\gsview32 dviout.ps
> > 
> > 
> > -- 
> > 
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> > 
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Prof. Murat Yildizoglu                  

  Institut Federatif de Recherche sur
           les Dynamiques Economiques
  IFREDE - E3i ( http://www.ifrede.org/ )
  Universite Montesquieu-Bordeaux IV
  Avenue Leon Duguit, 33608 Pessac Cedex, France
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  Fax: +33 5 56 84 86 47

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