Hi George,
Fptex caches the kpathsea lists in shared memory, which is a big
performance boost for slower machines on fat32 (but also comes with some
caveates -- RTFM). The recent (Dec. 18th??) updates to fptex seem at long
one caveat being that you cannot run two tex jobs at the same time, each
At 10:12 23/12/2003, you wrote:
Recent ConTeXt updates have rendered some Perl scripts
(texshow.pl modules) unusable under MiKTeX because they
heavily rely on web2c methods to find binaries and
complementary files.
it would help if there was a counterpart of kpsewhich for miktex; something:
On Tue, 23 Dec 2003, Giuseppe Bilotta wrote:
Recent ConTeXt updates have rendered some Perl scripts
(texshow.pl modules) unusable under MiKTeX because they
heavily rely on web2c methods to find binaries and
complementary files.
And probably under fptex (e.g., TeX Live 2003) if you have
