[EXTERNAL] Re: TeX on Windows?

[Robert Jantzen]

Sorry, I misspelled DifferentialGeometryNotes as dng instead of dgn in haste yesterday. I corrected it to 
http://www34.homepage.villanova.edu/robert.jantzen/notes/diffgeom/dngimages.zip
I did not intend anyone to waste much time on this, but it is frustrating that these different packages fail on me! I do have administrator access to my windows 10 machine.

bob

bob jantzen
http://www34.homepage.villanova.edu/robert.jantzen/
http://www.drbobenterprises.com 

-----Original Message-----
From: AC <achirvasub at gmail.com> 
Sent: Tuesday, May 25, 2021 6:35 PM
To: texhax at tug.org; Robert Jantzen <robert.jantzen at villanova.edu>; Philip Taylor <P.Taylor at Hellenic-Institute.Uk>; Dr Alan Litchfield <alan at alphabyte.co.nz>
Cc: texhax at tug.org
Subject: RE: [EXTERNAL] Re: TeX on Windows?



On May 25, 2021 6:03:40 PM EDT, Robert Jantzen <robert.jantzen at villanova.edu> wrote:
>This is my book:
>
>http://www34.homepage.villanova.edu/robert.jantzen/notes/diffgeom/index
>.htm The complete LaTeX source consists of two zipped files here:
>http://www34.homepage.villanova.edu/robert.jantzen/notes/diffgeom/texdi
>stribution.htm
>

If I visit this last link I get to a page that in turn points me to 

- http://www34.homepage.villanova.edu/robert.jantzen/notes/diffgeom/dgntexfiles2021.zip

- http://www34.homepage.villanova.edu/robert.jantzen/notes/diffgeom/dngimages.zip

and

- http://www34.homepage.villanova.edu/robert.jantzen/notes/diffgeom/dgnimagesepspdf.zip

The second one of those, presumably, is supposed to contain images. Alas, it doesn't work: clicking it results in

Not Found

The requested URL /robert.jantzen/notes/diffgeom/dngimages.zip was not found on this server.

Apache/2.2.15 (Oracle) Server at www34.homepage.villanova.edu Port 80

---

Ironic, given that abandoned websites came up in a companion thread not too long ago :).

>This folder contains also the "converted-to-pdf.pdf" image files from 
>using MikTex Texworks or TexnicCenter (I cannot remember any more what 
>I did back in the early teens of this decade):
>http://www34.homepage.villanova.edu/robert.jantzen/notes/diffgeom/dgnim
>agesepspdf.zip
>
>Should I try Tex Live next?
>
>How is this possible? I really don't understand. Also how did you guys 
>get my email shot in the dark at TUG?
>
>bob
>
>bob jantzen
>http://www34.homepage.villanova.edu/robert.jantzen/
>https://nam04.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.dr
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>From: Philip Taylor <P.Taylor at Hellenic-Institute.Uk>
>Sent: Tuesday, May 25, 2021 7:24 AM
>To: Dr Alan Litchfield <alan at alphabyte.co.nz>; Robert Jantzen 
><robert.jantzen at villanova.edu>
>Cc: texhax at tug.org
>Subject: [EXTERNAL] Re: TeX on Windows?
>
>Dr Alan Litchfield wrote:
>
>[Download the iso image and] mount it onto your computer.
>
>Not possible under Windows 7, Alan, unless additional software is 
>installed.  But to Bob :
>
>
>I have been happily using PCTeX all these years, and will continue to 
>do so but it seems like PCTeX has left us in the past two years since I 
>communicated with someone there at the company. Does anyone know what 
>happened to them?
>https://nam04.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.p
>ctex.com%2F&data=04%7C01%7Crobert.jantzen%40villanova.edu%7C37594bc
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>s.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.pctex.com%2F&data=0
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>website seems abandoned
>Is there any other for pay product to replace it?
>
>Pass.  Although I used to pay for TeX back in the Kellerman & Smith 
>days, I have not done so since then, and have never paid for a PC 
>version.  Many years ago the late, great, Sebastian Rahtz persuaded me 
>to switch to TeX Live, and I have never looked back.  In the past I 
>would use the network installer, or download and burn the ISO, or 
>download and mount the ISO, but these days I use Rsynch to fetch the 
>installation suite and install from my local copy.  The real problem is 
>that TeX Live is not a Windows product - it is a generic product that 
>has to support $2^n+1$ variant operating systems (how many different 
>ways can you spell "Linux" ?), and as a result the documentation too 
>has to be generic, which is distinctly sub-optimal.
>
>I am certain that together the TeX user community will be able to 
>assist you, but some background information will be vital, and it will 
>almost certainly take several iterations before we achieve complete 
>success.  So, questions :
>
>  1.  Exactly which operating system are you running
>  2.  Are you able to access your computer as am administrator 3.  Do 
>you have fast Internet access from your computer ?  (where "fast" => 
>better than 10Mbps) ?
>
>And to my fellow TeX and Windows users - given that one can install 
>(for example) Windows 7 from a USB stick, using the Microsoft Windows 
>USB/DVD download 
>tool<https://nam04.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2F
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>Mk6TvLg5oc%3D&reserved=0>, has anyone investigated whether an 
>analogous methodology could be used to install TeX Live from a USB 
>stick for people such as Bob who lack a DVD reader ?
>--
>Philip Taylor