[tex-live] TeXLive 7 with cygwin

Sebastian Rahtz sebastian.rahtz@computing-services.oxford.ac.uk
Wed, 31 Jul 2002 14:46:37 +0100


On Wed, Jul 31, 2002 at 02:33:38PM +0100, Jeremy Gibbons wrote:
> 
> I'm beginning to appreciate that, but do you have a better
> solution? I don't think putting a "proper" OS on the laptop
> is an option - it's a new Sony, complete with onboard video
> camera etc, and I bet there aren't any linux drivers
> yet.

you should have bought a Mac

> Besides, the last two times I tried installing linux, I
> promised myself I'd never do it again on a recent machine. 

believe in the True Way
 
> However, I also don't want to dispense with the shell (I can
> run latex and close friends from within emacs, but what
> about metapost, makeindex, psnup, etc etc), and nor do I
> want to have to suffer under the MS command prompt.

Mac OS X
 
> And of course it is extremely useful to have grep and the
> like available...

Mac OS X
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