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-registry
-more automatic postinstall
-user vs system
-gs, perl, psv
-file associations
-shortcuts
-fc-cache
+\section{Notes on Windows}
+\label{sec:windows}
+
+This edition of \TL, we built a unified installer for Windows and
+Unix. We limited support to Windows 2000, XP and Vista. These
+versions are less quirky than their predecessors, and have user home
+directories (\verb|%USERPROFILE%|).
+
+%\subsection{Different user expectations}
+%
+%We made some effort to conform to expectations of Windows users: the
+%installer defaults to \GUI{} mode; the default install location is
+%\dirname{Program Files}, it creates shortcuts to some
+%documentation and some \GUI{} utilities; it creates an entry in
+%Add/Remove Programs, and there is no need for any manual
+%configuration afterwards.
+%
+%A second issue is that Windows users are often unaware of different
+%levels of user permissions. Later Windows versions make some
+%rudimentary differentiation between administrators and regular
+%users, but non-administrators can \emph{e.g.} still write to many
+%locations outside their `home' directory., We tried to deal with this as
+%unobtrusively as possible.
+
+\subsection{Additional included software}
+
+\begin{figure}[tb]
+\tlpng{psview}{.6\linewidth}
+\caption{PS\_View: very high magnifications available!}\label{fig:psview}
+\end{figure}
+
+To be complete, a \TL installation needs support packages that are not
+commonly found on a Windows machine. \TL{} provides the missing
+pieces:
+\begin{description}
+\item[Perl and Ghostscript] Because of the importance of Perl and
+ Ghostscript, \TL{} includes `hidden' copies of these
+ programs. \TL{} programs that need them know where to find them,
+ but they don't betray their presence through environment variables
+ or registry settings. They aren't full-scale distributions, and
+ shouldn't interfere with a normal installation of Perl or
+ Ghostscript.
+\item[Command-line tools] A number of Windows ports of common Unix
+ command-line programs are installed along with the usual \TL{}
+ binaries. These include gzip, chktex, jpeg2ps, unzip, wget and the
+ command-line utilities from the xpdf suite.
+\item[PS\_View] Also installed is PS\_View, a new PostScript viewer
+ with a free license; see figure~\ref{fig:psview}.
+\end{description}
+\begin{description}
+\item[The \texttt{support} directory], already mentioned in
+ section~\ref{sec:tld}. This directory contains various programs
+ which can be useful in connection with \TeX, in particular a
+ number of \TeX-aware editors and \TeX{} frontends. The software in
+ this directory isn't covered by the installer.
+\end{description}
+
+\subsection{Urls for additional downloadable software}
+
+Urls for some other tools you may consider installing:
+\begin{description}
+\item[Ghostscript] \url{http://www.cs.wisc.edu/~ghost/}
+\item[Perl] \url{http://www.activestate.com/} (but you might need some
+ supplementary packages from CPAN: \url{http://www.cpan.org/})
+\item[ImageMagick] \url{http://www.imagemagick.com}
+\item[NetPBM] alternatively, you could use NetPBM instead of ImageMagick to
+ process or convert your graphic files. NetPBM home page is
+ \url{http://netpbm.sourceforge.net/}
+\item[\TeX-oriented editors] There is a wide choice, and it is a matter of the
+ user's taste. Here is a selection:
+ \begin{itemize*}
+ \item \cmdname{GNU Emacs} is available natively under Windows, see
+ \url{http://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/windows/ntemacs.html}
+ \item \cmdname{Emacs} with AucTeX is available natively under Windows, see
+ \url{ftp://alpha.gnu.org/gnu/auctex}
+ \item \cmdname{WinShell} is available on \TL in the \path|support|
+ directory, see \url{http://www.winshell.de}
+ \item \cmdname{WinEdt} is shareware available from \url{http://www.winedt.com}
+ \item \cmdname{Vim} is available from \url{http://www.vim.org}
+ \item TeXnicCenter is free software, available from
+ \url{http://www.toolscenter.org} and in the proTeXt distribution.
+ \item \cmdname{LEd} is available from \url{http://www.ctan.org/support/LEd}
+ \item \cmdname{SciTE} is available from \url{http://www.scintilla.org/SciTE.html}
+ \end{itemize*}
+\end{description}
+
+%registry
+%user vs system
+%file associations
+%path problem
+%non-admin
+%network install
+%fc-cache
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