From owner-freebsd-ports Sun Feb 25 08:03:53 1996 Return-Path: owner-ports Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id IAA04758 for ports-outgoing; Sun, 25 Feb 1996 08:03:53 -0800 (PST) Received: from iaehv.IAEhv.nl (root@iaehv.IAEhv.nl [192.87.208.2]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id IAA04751 for ; Sun, 25 Feb 1996 08:03:49 -0800 (PST) Received: by iaehv.IAEhv.nl (8.6.13/1.63) id RAA04992; Sun, 25 Feb 1996 17:03:23 +0100 X-Disclaimer: iaehv.nl is a public access UNIX system and cannot be held responsible for the opinions of its individual users. Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by nietzsche.bowtie.nl (8.6.12/8.6.9) with ESMTP id NAA07028; Sun, 25 Feb 1996 13:02:43 +0100 Message-Id: <199602251202.NAA07028@nietzsche.bowtie.nl> X-Mailer: exmh version 1.6.1 5/23/95 To: Christoph Kukulies cc: andreas@knobel.gun.de (Andreas Klemm), jkh@freebsd.org, freebsd-ports@freefall.freebsd.org Subject: Re: help! tex/latex ports problem In-reply-to: kuku's message of Fri, 23 Feb 1996 09:04:31 +0100. <199602230804.JAA19566@gilberto.physik.rwth-aachen.de> Date: Sun, 25 Feb 1996 13:02:42 +0100 From: Marc van Kempen Sender: owner-ports@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk and has now become one of the best TeX/LaTe>X dist IMO. > > > > Christoph, I have a port in the queue. Finished it this evening... > > Only some littel problems, got xtexsh not running, possibly I have > > the wrong TCL/TK version installed. And the configuration of teTeX > > doesn't run with freebsd's dialog utility in fullscreen mode > > (Jordan ?!). But you can use texconfig in batch mode or modify > > the config files directly. > > > > Andreas /// > > Thanks for the appendix. I did already try teTeX (grabbed the binary dist > from our local sunsite.informatik.rwth-aachen.de) - the only thing > I found making sense to me was texconfig - I started it, > failed miserably and threw in the towel on it. > Well .. RTFM :), (I admit it is a bit hidden in the tree $TEXMF/texconfig/README) You have to set DIALOG_TERM to xterm to make it work in an xterm, I just checked to see if it works on the console, but it doesn't you can set it to vt100, but that doesn't work either for the console. Regards, Marc. ---------------------------------------------------- Marc van Kempen BowTie Technology Email: marc@bowtie.nl WWW & Databases tel. +31 40 2 43 20 65 fax. +31 40 2 44 21 86 http://www.bowtie.nl ----------------------------------------------------