On Thu, Apr 27, 2006 at 12:15:40PM +0200, Taco Hoekwater wrote:
Hi all (esp. windows users),
Last night I tried setting up a Win98SE for use with context using mswincontext.zip (I borrowed a laptop for bachotek, so I could not install linux on it ... ).
It went terribly wrong. At first I thought it was just the shoddy Win98 install on that machine, but Olivier tells me he also had problems installing the latest mswincontext, so I hope another someone who uses Windows98 can testrun the installation.
I got all sort of errors from command.com (syntax error, out of environment space, command not found, permission denied), and the wiki page is definately incomplete so I could not really debug. In the end, I basically gave up.
If 'out of environment space' is the root of the problem, then it should be possible to specify a larger environment when starting up a dos box. In a distant past, I used to create specialized dos boxes for TeX with a larger environment and the necessary environment variables. This was for w95. This comment may be way off-base since I haven't tried myself to install mswincontext. -- Siep Kroonenberg