Re: [AUCTeX] Install report: Emacs and Windows 98

[Harald von Aschen]

At 11:08 10.08.05 +0200, Ralf Angeli wrote:
> * Harald von Aschen (2005-08-09) writes:
>
> > In Mingw I have to set the path-variable to my needs, this is GhostScript,
> > TeXLive and the rest who has aready been in path:

[...]

> > Perhaps this could be a hint in the
> > installation guide for Windows users?
>
> You mean setting $PATH?  I think this can be mentioned in the
> installation instructions.  But users should rather set the permanent,
> system-wide variable than doing this temporarily in the shell used for
> the installation.  In the end, many of the programs in $PATH are
> supposed to be found after the installation as well.  And many may not
> have variables associated with them which hold the path to the
> executable.

Here Ghostscript hasn't set up $path. E.g. the command line tool epstopdf 
for converting eps files to pdf who uses gswin32c.exe is nevertheless working.

And thank you very much, Ralf, for your great help!

Best regards

Harald