In the physics department we have a folder BTEX that can be placed anywhere. This folder contains a directory called Fortran in which the source code resides. It contains another directory Quests in which three command files reside in addition to all of the information about the individual exams.

The public version of TeX known as emtex is available. As given here, it is designed solely to allow the user to see what his exam will look like. It does not include printing capability. The zip file minemtex is a minimum subset of emtex that enables one to view the output of a tex exam in dos. – This works in Windows version 98 and earlier, Windows 2000 professional needs a different version of tex -- The zip file must be unzipped in a directory emtex placed under the root directory. The assumed directory structure is

Root
 Emtex
 Windows\desktop\Parkin01
  Btex
  Fortran
  Quests

In the Quests directory the file texam.bat executes the code texam.exe which is presumed stored in the Fortran directory. The output of texam dt1 is a file dt1.tex. The command file btex.bat then produces a combination of the various input files including dt1.tex as exam.tex. From this it produces exam.dvi using the tex code in the Emtex directory off of the root. This is then renamed dt1.dvi. The command file then uses dviscr.exe in the emtex folder to produce a viewable image on the screen. The file commands.hlp tells how to look at this. The command q terminates this. The file view.bat looks at the dvi file without the tex step of reproducing it. Thus view dt1 produces a viewable image on the screen if the file dt1.dvi exists.

The zip files are in http://phys.ufl.edu/~coldwell/texam/ . The file ..\..\TEXAM\minemtex.zip should be unzipped in a directory named emtex directly under the root. It contains the file commands.hlp that should be printed out before attempting to view a file. The file btex.zip can be unzipped in any convenient directory, including the desktop. The Fortran and the executable are in the subdirectory Fortran, while a sample question file and the command files are in the subdirectory quests.