What follows is a list of archives and executables needed for installation. Essential files are typeset like this. The other files are optional.
set PATH=c:\texmf\miktex\bin;%PATH%to your `autoexec.bat'. Under Windows NT you can use Control Panel to change the value of PATH.
Here comes the transcript of a standard installation procedure. `c:\texmf' is the destination directory. No additional TEXMF trees will be incorporated.
Welcome to MiKTeX 1.08 Installation Utility. This program will install MiKTeX 1.08 on your system. MiKTeX 1.08 will be installed in `c:\texmf'. To install to this directory, press <RETURN>. To install to a different directory, enter the name of another directory. You can choose not to install MiKTeX 1.08. Enter `cancel' to cancel the installation. Destination Directory: You can cause MiKTeX to incorporate additional TEXMF trees. To do so, enter a semicolon-separated list of directory names. Press <RETURN>, to use nothing but the TEXMF tree that comes with MiKTeX. Incorporate other TEXMF trees: Installing AMS-Fonts... Installing AMS-LaTeX... Installing Babel system... Installing Generic BibTeX input files... Installing Computer Modern fonts... Installing Generic dvips input files... Installing EC fonts... Installing intel-based executables, part 1/2... Installing intel-based executables, part 2/2... Installing LaTeX2e base distribution... Installing Generic METAFONT input files... Installing Essential MiKTeX files... Installing Various input files... Installing Generic MakeIndex input files... Installing Generic MetaPost input files... Installing PostScript fonts for LaTeX2e... Installing Various LaTeX packages... Installing Generic TeX input files... Installing Texinfo input files and documentation... Installing PK font files for the screen... Writing file name data base... Checking that the installation worked: 1. Invoking TeX... This is TeX, Version 3.14159 (MiKTeX 1.08) (test.tex Babel <v3.6h> and hyphenation patterns for english, german, loaded. [1] ) Output written on test.dvi (1 page, 552 bytes). Transcript written on test.log. 2. Opening DVI file... Installation is complete. Please append `c:\texmf\miktex\bin' to the environment variable `PATH' and reboot the system.
You should now inspect the Dvips configuration file. You have to modify it, because it probably doesn't match your printer and paper size. See section Configuring Dvips, for more information.
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