Re: Problem with MS Windows-based Installation

Christian Schlauer <[email protected]> Mon, 14 Mar 2005 12:33:14 +0100

Newsgroups	gmane.emacs.auc-tex
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eve <[email protected]> writes:

> Your instructions in INSTALL.WINDOWS may have missed a serious issue.
> Auctex-11.55 uses "xdvi" for displaying DVI. On a MS windows-based machine,
> xdvi is not available. I think most people uses MiKTeX which gives us "yap".
>
> I tried to do a quick fix in tex.el but found use of other X-window
> based programs
> such as xpdf. Simply put, Auctex-11.55 is NOT for MS windows-based machines.
> I wish you have made that clear in your release note. 

Read _all_ of INSTALL.windows. Especially point 9.

-- 
Christian Schlauer