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[Henri Lesourd <address@hidden>]

el.douwen wrote:

> hi all
>
> i tried to install texmacs at the lycee on a windowd pc
>
> i installer first mixtex
>
> then i did this
>
>    1. Download CygTeXmacs.zip
>       <ftp://ftp.texmacs.org/pub/TeXmacs/cygwin/CygTeXmacs.zip> (82Mb).
>       If you don't have ftp access, then you may also load
>       <http://www.texmacs.org/Download/ftp/cygwin/CygTeXmacs.zip> this
>       file from the web.
>    2. Unzip the file in the directory C:\CygTeXmacs (or any other
>       directory without whitespace characters).
>    3. Launch TeXmacs by clicking on C:\CygTeXmacs\starttexmacs.bat.
>
> but: when i click as step 3 says, nothing happens, a fantom black 
> windows appears a while, without saying longer enough to have time to 
> read what is written in it.
>
> have i done anything wrong ?
One thing that could be missing is that you need
to start Cygwin first. Then, a better way to start
TeXmacs is just to type "texmacs [Enter]" in an xterm.