TL5, win32

Staszek Wawrykiewicz StaW@gust.org.pl
Mon, 22 Nov 1999 03:38:00 +0100 (MET)


On 18 Nov 1999, Fabrice POPINEAU wrote:

> This one is much more specific to windows, but is there any problem in
> modifying the location of windows binaries ? I mean that everywhere
> else, some more precise denomination of the platform is used, and
> bin/win32 should really become bin/i586-pc-win32 . Any objections ?

I think there is no need for such long denomination for win32.
Please consider that standard command line (DOS box) is so primitive
so it is no easy to type, e.g.: cd d:\xxx\TeX\bin\i586-pc-win32  ;-)

Staszek Wawrykiewicz
email: staw@gust.org.pl