Inform under Windows; TeX


Sun, 19 Feb 95 21:20:25 -0500

Someone emailed me about using Inform under Windows. My reply bounced, but
the question comes up enough for me to post general comments.

Inform/386 won't work under Windows; the memory managers get into conflict.
Inform/PC (generic) can work if you have your lower memory optimized to a
high degree. I've found that Inform/PC, in wanting about 580k of free low
memory, comes teasingly close under Windows. Most people seem to have around
570k free which doesn't quite do the job. Running a memory optimizer such
as Memmaker (or a real tool such as Netroom or one of those) often will do
the job. But the best (not 100 0.000000acetious) advice is to switch to Linux.

I've seen a number of laments about DOS users not able to use the Inform
manuals because they are in TeX (and complaining about the ASCII versions).
I might point out that TeX for PC environments has been available for a long
time. It's a little effort to configure, but it works quite fine. Look in
the tex-archive at ftp.shsu.edu; there's everything there that you'll ever
need.

Bob Newell
bnewell@delphi.com
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