jwbirdsa@phoenix.Princeton.EDU (James Webster Birdsall) (05/19/89)
Several weeks ago, I posted a message requesting info on TeX for the
PC. I got deluged with the same, from many many people. Thanks to all of
you. For the benefit of anybody who ever wants to know this again,
here's a summary of what I found out:
There are two PD TeX packages for DOS: DOSTEX and SBTEX. DOSTEX is
much larger and requires 640k to run [I haven't had a chance to test any
of this, so this is all hearsay.] SBTEX requires only 512k and runs much
faster, so that although it doesn't allow preloads [if this is garbled,
please bear in mind that I don't know much of anything about TeX yet],
it loads LaTeX et al. fast enough that it doesn't really matter.
Found several viewers, for CGA, Hercules, EGA, and VGA. The largest
is DVIVGA, which occupies several HUGE arc files. DVIEW and CDVI12 are
the other two I found.
Just about anything else you need can be found on science (see list
below), including printer drivers, various conversion utilities, and
several interesting-looking files that I haven't had the time to figure
out what they do yet. :-)
Here's the list of what's available from where:
simtel20.army.mil in directory pd1:<msdos.tex>
TENEX BIBTEX99.ARC, CDVI12.ARC, DOSTEX[1..6].ARC,
DVIEW.ARC, DVIVGA.INF, DVIVGA[1..9].ARC,
HP2TEX.ARC, PCWRITEX.ARC, SBTEX.ARC, WEB.ARC
note that, if you have problems doing anonymous FTP from simtel (as I
do), these files can be gotten from the trickle server at
LISTSERV@RPIECS on BITNET, using the syntax:
/PDGET MAIL PD1:<directory name>file name (UUE
which causes it to send you the named file by mail in uuencoded format,
usually in many pieces which must be concatenated. Unfortunately, the
server is a bit finicky and, worse, has a very low limit on how many
bytes of files you can order per day -- I found I couldn't get more than
one per day.
b.scs.uiuc.edu file DVIVGA.EXE
128.174.90.2
venus.ycc.yale.edu file SBTEX.ARC
also lost of interesting-looking directories,
but I kept getting the message "Access not allowed for anonymous
account." Annoying, to say the least.
june.cs.washington.edu in directory TEX
some LaTex stuff, some fonts, PiCTeX
science.utah.edu in directory aps:<tex>
128.110.192.2 THE REAL MOTHER LOAD! Printer drivers, both
TENEX source and executable, for many varieties of dot-
matrix printer. Various conversion utilities.
Megs upon megs of fonts, more than just about anybody will every want,
need, or be able to put on their hard drives. :-) Manuals.
a.cs.uiuc.edu in directory pub/TeX
128.174.5.20 dvips, PiCTeX, tr2latex, other stuff
cayuga.cs.rochester.edu in directory pub/latex-style
129.5.53.209 various LaTeX style pages
score.stanford.edu directories <TEX.*>
36.8.0.46 AMSFONTS, AMSTEX, BIBTEX, CM, DOC, GF,
TENEX INPUTS, LATEX, LN03, MF, TEST, TEXHAX,
TUGBOAT, WEB
looks like a fair amount of good stuff here, too -- more fonts
especially
sun.soe.clarkson.edu assorted stuff in directory pub
128.153.12.3
The two best sources I found were SIMTEL and SCIENCE.
Hope this helps somebody. Being written at 2:30AM, I also hope that
it's comprehensible. :-)
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"For it is the doom of men that they forget." -- Merlinnelson@sun.soe.clarkson.edu (Russ Nelson) (05/20/89)
In article <8531@phoenix.Princeton.EDU> jwbirdsa@phoenix.Princeton.EDU (James Webster Birdsall) writes:
Several weeks ago, I posted a message requesting info on TeX for the
PC. ...
sun.soe.clarkson.edu assorted stuff in directory pub
128.153.12.3
The stuff on sun.soe.clarkson.edu is also available by archive server. Mike
DeCorte's signature says it all:
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Internet: mrd@sun.soe.clarkson.edu // Bitnet: mrd@clutx.bitnet
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