TUG Unix CD: HTML documentation

Sebastian Rahtz TWG-TDS@SHSU.edu
Thu, 22 Feb 1996 07:13:55 GMT


 > OK, I bite. I find this whole ISO business complete nonsense for a CD
 > targeted to major Unix platforms.
its targeted at Unix platforms, yes, but for everyone else as
well. its a TDS CD, looked at from another perspective

 > As far as I understand, if there is a file foo45678.bar on the CD, and
 > the CD is mounted with Rock Ridge Extension in effect (as sebastian
 > wrote it should have), a request for foo456789.bar will not succeed.
 > If that's dead wrong 'though, the rest of this mail is garbage.
it might be. what happens is that foo45678.bar is ISOized, but the
full name is kept in a separate record. RR systems will read that
record, and thus retrieve the right file

 > Make a usable TeX CD... :-)
i have. i used it at home for the last 2 evenings. it all works

sebastian