Last modified: 12:49:19, Sat 11 Nov 2000 UTC
epsmerge was never built to run on any other operating systems than the Unix ones. Indeed, I only have access to Unix systems (this is not a bad thing!) and can only test epsmerge on various Unixen.
Recently, however, brave people have reported success with epsmerge on Microsoft Windows NT using perls 5.005 and 5.6.0. As with the Unix case, the trick seems to be to tell perl where it can find the epsmerge libraries.
Scott Hoge, for example, reported on 06 Oct 2000 that he had used epsmerge via the following hack (saved to a file called epsmerge.cmd):
@rem = ' -*- Perl -*-
@perl -IE:\software\epsmerge-2.1.0 -IE:\software\epsmerge-2.1.0\lib -S %0 %1 %2 %3 %4 %5 %6 %7 %8 %9
@goto endofperl
';
@ARGV = glob("@ARGV");
require "epsmerge";
__END__
:endofperl
If you want to use epsmerge on Microsoft Windows NT, feel free to do so. However, I will not be able to provide any qualified assistance -- my only experience with NT was once I had Administrator rights on my box here at work. After I made sure that the network was working, I wiped NT and installed Debian (the machine came with NT and the network card with diagnostic tools for NT so I thought why not try it out...)
Windows NT is very probably a trademark of Microsoft Corporation.