1.4 What's in this port

The distribution is made of the following packages:



TEX 3.14159 the TEX compiler
METAFONT 2.7182 the font compiler
MetaPost 0.641 graphic language along METAFONT style, produce nice postscript figures,
METAFONTware support tools for METAFONT
TEXware support tools for TEX
e-TEX 2.1 the e-TEX extension to TEX
Omega 1.11 a TEX extension towards Unicode (and much more)
pdfTEX 0.14f a TEXcompiler that can produce PDF
BibTEX 0.99C the bibliography compiler
BibTEX8 3.71 the same, but rewritten in C and designed for 8 bits character sets
mktex* support programs for generating missing font files, fmtutil for building formats
dtl translates DVI files into human readable format and vice-versa
dvi2tty previews DVI files on a text mode console
dvidvi helps with pagination problems
dviljk 2.6 prints on LaserJet printers
dvipdfm 0.12.7b converts DVI into PDF format
dvipsk 5.86d converts DVI into Postscript format
gsftopk 1.19.1 rasterizes Type 1 fonts into PK fonts
lacheck cheks your LATEX files without actually compiling them
ltx2rtf 4.3 converts LATEX files to RTF files
makindexk 2.13 processes index files
musixflx helps writing music
odvipsk converts Omega extended DVI files to Postscript
owindvi 0.67 previews Omega extended DVI files
ps2pkm 1.5 another rasterizer for Type 1 files
psutils a collection of tools to manipulate Postscript files
seetexk various tools to manipulate DVI files
t1utils 1.11 tools to assemble and disassemble Type 1 fonts
tex4htk converts TEX or LATEX files to HTML
texinfo the GNU technical documentation package relying on TEX
windvi 0.67 previews DVI files


Among the programs, there are a few DLLs:

All the various TEX engines are distributed in the form of a .dll file for the core, and a .exe file for the front-end. This is the answer to the problem of link files that do not exist on Win32 platforms. For example, the TEX engine is made of:


11/19/98  11:07a               217,088 tex.dll
11/19/98  11:07a                16,384 tex.exe
and the latex.exe file is nothing but a rough copy of tex.exe using the same core tex.dll.

Same approach for the mktex*.exe family of programs which are linked to the mktex.dll library.

Here is the rough listing of the binary distribution:   Volume in drive D has no label.   Volume Serial Number is ECE6-7035     Directory of d:\Local\TeXLive\bin\win32    [.]                [..]               a5bookle.bat       access.exe  afm2tfm.exe        amstex.bat         bg5latex.bat       bg5pltx.bat  bibtex.exe         bibtex8.exe        blue.bat           buildhash.exe  bz2lib.dll         bzip2.exe          bzip2recover.exe   cef5ltx.bat  ceflatex.bat       cefsltx.bat        ChkTeX.exe         cjpeg.exe  cont-de.exe        cont-en.exe        cont-nl.exe        cslatex.bat  cslatexd.bat       cslatexi.bat       cslatexk.bat       csplain.bat  csplaind.bat       csplaini.bat       csplaink.bat       disdvi.exe  djpeg.exe          dmp.exe            doubside.bat       dt2dv.exe  dv2dt.exe          dvi2tty.exe        dvibook.exe        dviconcat.exe  dvicopy.exe        dvidvi.exe         dvihp.exe          dvilj.exe  dvilj2p.exe        dvilj4.exe         dvilj4l.exe        dvilj6.exe  dvipdfm.exe        dvips.exe          dviselect.exe      dvitodvi.exe  dvitomp.exe        dvitype.exe        e2pall.bat         ebb.exe  einitex.exe        elatex.bat         elatex.exe         eplain.bat  epsffit.exe        epstopdf.bat       etex.dll           etex.exe  evirtex.exe        extractres.bat     fixdlsrps.bat      fixfmps.bat  fixmacps.bat       fixpsditps.bat     fixpspps.bat       fixscribeps.bat  fixtpps.bat        fixwfwps.bat       fixwpps.bat        fixwwps.bat  fmtutil.exe        frlatex.bat        frtex.bat          f_name.bat  gbklatex.bat       getafm.exe         gftodvi.exe        gftopk.exe  gftype.exe         gsftopk.exe        gunzip.exe         gzip.exe  hbf2gf.exe         ht.bat             ht.exe             htlatex.exe  httex.exe          httexi.exe         hugelatex.exe      hugetex.exe  icombine.exe       ijoin.exe          includeres.bat     inimf.exe  inimpost.exe       iniomega.exe       initex.exe         install-info.exe  ispell.exe         jadetex.exe        jpeg2ps.exe        jpegtran.exe  kpathsea.dll       kpsestat.exe       kpsewhich.exe      lacheck.exe  lambda.exe         lamstex.bat        latex.exe          LATEX2E.HLP  libgifreader.dll   libjpeg.dll        libpng.dll         libtiff.dll  libttf.dll         lnexe.exe          lollipop.bat       ltx2rtf.exe  mag.exe            makeindex.exe      makeinfo.exe       makempx.exe  mex.exe            mf.dll             mf.exe             mft.exe  mfw.dll            mfw.exe            mktex.dll          mktex.exe  mktexdir.exe       mktexlsr.exe       mktexmf.exe        mktexnam.exe  mktexpk.exe        mktextfm.exe       mktexupd.exe       mllatex.bat  mltex.bat          mltex.exe          mpost.dll          mpost.exe  mpto.exe           musixflx.exe       newer.exe          odvicopy.exe  odvips.exe         odvitype.exe       ofm2opl.exe        omega.dll  omega.exe          opl2ofm.exe        otangle.exe        otp2ocp.exe  outocp.exe         ovf2ovp.exe        ovp2ovf.exe        owindvi.exe  patgen.exe         pdfcslatex.bat     pdfcslatexd.bat    pdfcslatexi.bat  pdfcslatexk.bat    pdfcsplain.bat     pdfcsplaind.bat    pdfcsplaini.bat  pdfcsplaink.bat    pdfeinitex.exe     pdfelatex.exe      pdfetex.dll  pdfetex.exe        pdfevirtex.exe     pdfimages.exe      pdfinfo.exe  pdfinitex.exe      pdfjadetex.exe     pdflatex.exe       pdfmex.exe  pdfplatex.exe      pdftex.dll         pdftex.exe         pdftexinfo.exe  pdftops.exe        pdftotext.exe      pdfvirtex.exe      pdfxmltex.exe  pfb2pfa.exe        physe.bat          phyzzx.bat         pk2bm.exe  pktogf.exe         pktype.exe         platex.exe         pltotf.exe  png2pnm.exe        pnm2png.exe        pooltype.exe       ps2pk.exe  psbook.exe         psmerge.bat        psnup.exe          psresize.exe  psselect.exe       pstops.exe         rdjpgcom.exe       regex.dll  rpng.exe           rpng2.exe          runht.exe          runperl.exe  sjisltx.bat        sq.exe             startex.bat        t1ascii.exe  t1asm.exe          t1binary.exe       t1disasm.exe       t1unmac.exe  t4ht.exe           tangle.exe         tex.dll            tex.exe  tex4ht.exe         texexec.bat        texhash.exe        texi2html.bat  texindex.exe       texinfo.exe        texshow.bat        texsis.bat  text1.bat          texutil.bat        tftopl.exe         thumbpdf.bat  tie.exe            tiff2png.exe       ttf2afm.exe        ttf2pfb.exe  ttf2pk.exe         ttf2tfm.exe        ttfdump.exe        unsq.exe  vftovp.exe         virmf.exe          virmpost.exe       viromega.exe  virtex.exe         vptovf.exe         weave.exe          windvi.exe  wpng.exe           wrjpgcom.exe       xmltex.exe         zlib.dll               258 File(s)     11ÿ254ÿ243 bytes                 2 Dir(s)     135ÿ544ÿ832 bytes free