rokicki@Navajo.ARPA (Tomas Rokicki) (03/19/86)
I have just received the new (3.20a) Manx C compiler and have been
working hard on bringing up a 25,000 line program (TeX, for those
who are interested.) The preliminary version of db that comes with
the compiler is OUTSTANDING---debugging C code has never been so
fun! Many many kudos to Jim Goodnow and the rest of Manx . . .
-tombreuel@h-sc1.UUCP (thomas breuel) (03/22/86)
Probably many people are interested in TeX for the AMIGA. If the version that you are porting is public domain, I am sure it would be appreciated greatly if you posted it. Otherwise, please let us know whether and when it will be a commercial product. Thanks, Thomas. PS: I'm posting this rather than mailing it partially to see how many other people are *really* interested in TeX. For those who don't know: TeX is a text formatting/typesetting program for papers, in particular technical/mathematical papers. It was developed by Knuth at Stanford, and (I think) the original PASCAL version is public domain. I have not used it myself (having troff/eqn/...), but I hear that it is an excellent system. It would certainly be great if it were available for the AMIGA.
george@osu-eddie.UUCP (George Jones) (03/24/86)
In article <999@h-sc1.UUCP>, breuel@h-sc1.UUCP (thomas breuel) writes: > PS: I'm posting this rather than mailing it partially to see > how many other people are *really* interested in TeX. > ... It would certainly be > great if it were available for the AMIGA. I am interested. I'm not sure if I am *realy* interested, but I am interested. Keep me posted on any developments. -- ----------- George M. Jones cbosgd!osu-eddie!george (uucp) (614) 885-5102 (home) george@ohio-state.csnet (csnet) (614) 457-8600 (work) 70003,2443 (CompusServe)
rokicki@Navajo.ARPA (Tomas Rokicki) (03/25/86)
TeX finally works (it just passed the trip test today.) It will not be public domain; it will be distributed by me as soon as I get it and all the necessary support finished (make that a month or so), for details, mail to rokicki@su-sushi.arpa. The Pascal version is public domain; I converted the Pascal to C and compiled. (No, it wasn't quite that easy.) It is FAST on the Amiga; preliminary results seem to indicate it is twice as fast as TeX for the Macintosh by Kellerman & Smith. All I need now is a bigger machine (512K is too small to create a format file), a screen driver, and some device drivers. -tom