[NTG-context] Perl scripts almost unusable under Win32 MiKTeX

Hans Hagen ntg-context@ntg.nl
Sun, 04 Jan 2004 19:47:19 +0100


Hi George,

>Fptex caches the kpathsea lists in shared memory, which is a big
>performance boost for slower machines on fat32 (but also comes with some
>caveates -- RTFM).  The recent (Dec. 18th??) updates to fptex seem at long

one caveat being that you cannot run two tex jobs at the same time, each 
using a different texmf tree; but not that many users will encounter that 
situation

Hans