Gavin Sinclair wrote:
By "isolated tex environment" I presume you mean "an environment that only runs in that dos box". Is that right?
Does that isolated environment clash with another TeX installation (i.e. MiKTeX in this case)? I'm led to believe TeX installations are very territorial: they can't tolerate other installations on the same computer!
the minimal distributions are really isolated, this is what setuptex.bat does; one drawback of the regular distributions is that they assume that they are installed as only tex distribution; the minimals are set up in such a way that one can run many of them in parallel as well as support multiple platforms with binaries that are out of sync with each other (hence the texmf-mswin etc trees); actually, if we had a texmf-miktex binary tree we could run fptex and miktex in parallel (i have to pick up that thread) Hans ----------------------------------------------------------------- Hans Hagen | PRAGMA ADE Ridderstraat 27 | 8061 GH Hasselt | The Netherlands tel: 038 477 53 69 | fax: 038 477 53 74 | www.pragma-ade.com | www.pragma-pod.nl -----------------------------------------------------------------