2 Getting it!

The latest version of fpTEX can be found on every CTAN site in the systems/win32/fptex directory, for example:

ftp://ftp.dante.de/pub/tex/systems/win32/fptex/0.4

ftp://ftp.tex.ac.uk/pub/tex/systems/win32/fptex/0.4

will point you to the current release.

The home of fpTEX is:

http://www.fptex.org

You can find beta versions as well as goodies and news here. The main repository for the files is ftp://ftp.dante.de/pub/fptex .

For a very quick installation, follow these instructions:

  1. create a c:\temp\fptex temporary directory and cd to it;
  2. get this small, nice utility called wget.exe;
  3. get the batch file called getfptex.bat;
  4. run the batch file, and wait, because it will take quite a long time;
  5. run the TeXSetup.exe program that has been downloaded.

An easy alternate solution is to get the TEX-Live 5 CD-ROM. You will get everything from the CD-ROM, maybe not as up-to-date, but maybe more easily.