jalbert@cs.ubc.ca (Francois Jalbert) (10/10/90)
Hello TeXperts. I have been using PC-TeX for 3 years or so. And I regularly
felt its 64Kb (lately +/- 90Kb) memory limitation. Especially with pictures,
music macros, and now my Japanese macros. I therefore grabbed last night from
Stuttgart a copy of emTeX. I'm impressed, but here is my problem.
The .dvi file is several Mbs long. The temporary VM file created by emTeX is
also about 1.6Mb big at most. I use about 200Kb out of emTeX's 262Kb available
memory. I have a RAM disk of 2 Mb in size. I want the VM file to be on that RAM
disk D:, but the .dvi to be in my emTeX directory on drive C: along with my .tex
source. I have been trying a number of things for 3 hours now and I can't see
how to get that configuration.
The temporary VM file appears always on the drive I'm logged into. I tried
setting environment variables to no avail. The .dvi file also appears only
on the drive I'm logged into. I couldn't see how this can be changed. Ideally,
I would like to run Big LaTeX from my drive C: with my .tex and .dvi files on
C:. But the VM on the RAM disk D:.
Has anybody got any clues as to how to achieve this? I read the docs, both
english and german (I luckily speak it), tried environment variables, command
line options, etc. Surely, my need is reasonable, there has got to be a way.
Thanks in advance for any hints. It ought to speed things up in my case.
Franky