Re: fptex and TL2004

If they are needs for new saints, I would propose Pawel as such.
Thanks a lot for this welcome surprise.
Henning Heinze 

On 25 Feb 2005 at 7:23, Staszek Wawrykiewicz wrote:

> As I have learnt from different mailing lists, there are still
> so many users sharing not only the sentiment to fptex, but also 
> prefer having the TeX installation conforming to the news in 
> TDS/teTeX/web2c world. Yeah, it seems that also so many Polish users still 
> love fptex/TL for windows...
> 
> I know that most of users received the TeX Live 2004 collection, but
> this time, unfortunatelly, the windows installer (usually the same as
> for fptex) is missing for some reasons. Anyway, I'd like to admit that
> windows port included in TL2004 works very well with all that news
> introduced in TDS1.1 and TL (thanks to Fabrice). What could the users
> (and followers of fptex) do with TL2004? I'd like to announce the 
> _provisional_ TL2004 installation program for Windows users:
> 
> ftp://ftp.gust.org.pl/pub/GUST/contrib/TL2004/tlpm1.0beta.zip
> 
> Author: Pawel Jackowski (public domain)
> 
> This program is dedicated for rather bold people (using sometimes the
> keyboard, instead of only the mouse:), anyway it allows to install from 
> the TL2004-CD any scheme, collection or package, make listing of any
> scheme/collection/package, check dependencies and even uninstall the
> individual set, etc.
> 
> As this program doesn't touch in any way users' configuration (environment
> variables, registry), it can be safely applied for "just try it" purposes.
> All (important) configuration steps can be found in the 'tlpm.winconf'
> file (sorry for that, but windows is enough impredictable, so we have
> to gather only some hints). 
> 
> Please send any comments directly to P.Jackowski at gust.org.pl
> and Cc to me. Thanks,
> 
> -- 
> Staszek Wawrykiewicz
> [email protected]
> 
> 
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