lar@pc.usl.edu (Robert Lane A.) (02/24/90)
In article <48cf04b2.1a5bf@moth.engin.umich.edu> chrisl@caen.engin.umich.edu (Chris Lang) writes: In article <2444@castle.ed.ac.uk> aiajms@castle.ed.ac.uk (Bellerophon) writes: >Also, could someone mail me telling me how I can get commonTeX for the >Amiga. I tried downloading it once by mail from fintuvm but that didnt work. >Is there an FTP site or a more reliable source via mail? Or can someone >else mail me it? I have also had no luck with CommonTeX from FINTUVM. I believe it was uudecode that choked on what I got, twice. Is there any other way of getting it? (Eventually I'll break down and get AmigaTeX, but I want to make sure I'll get enough use out of it to warrant it first.) A few weeks ago I snarfed the source to CommonTeX v2.9 from uunet.uu.net and compiled it on my Amiga using Lattice C 5.04. All that was required was to rewrite the makefile so dain-bramaged lmk could handle it. Once it compiled, though, I found that I didn't have enough memory to run it (only 1 MB) so I can't say if it works or not. If you have a couple of megs of memory on your system and a C compiler, you might want to give this a try. Lane lar@usl.edu ...!texbell!rouge!lar "The reason a dog has so many friends is 'cause he wags his tail instead of his tongue." -- Aerosmith
wizard@sosaria.imp.com (Chris Brand) (03/16/90)
Where can I get a copy of CommonTex? It was on xanth, but just when I requested it, it was deleted! Arrrrgh! I'm also looking for a program named FontMaker V1.0, which is said to be able to create a Sculpt object of any text line in any standard Amiga font. -- ------------------------------------ Chris Brand - wizard@sosaria.imp.com "Justice is the possession and doing of what one is entitled to" - Platon ------------------------------------
tadguy@abcfd01.larc.nasa.gov (Tad Guy) (03/19/90)
In article <02414.AA02414@sosaria.imp.com> wizard@sosaria.imp.com (Chris Brand) writes: > Where can I get a copy of CommonTex? It was on xanth, but just when I > requested it, it was deleted! Arrrrgh! It was moved to /amiga/commontex.zoo on xanth.cs.odu.edu. It's only disk one of the multidisk CommonTeX distribution. ...tad Archive /amiga/commontex.zoo: Length CF Size Now Date Time -------- --- -------- --------- -------- 6554 40% 3943 27 Nov 89 23:49:34 HEADER 44952 31% 31182 29 Dec 88 08:43:46 c/Shell 8204 27% 5977 28 Dec 88 17:52:24 c/dmouse 102 13% 89 4 Sep 89 16:48:02 c/latex.sh 103 13% 90 28 Jun 89 10:33:38 c/latexg.sh 102 12% 90 4 Sep 89 16:48:14 c/plain.bak 102 12% 90 4 Sep 89 16:49:20 c/plain.sh 103 11% 92 4 Sep 89 16:47:40 c/plaing.sh 9720 23% 7436 26 Jun 89 13:56:12 c/snipit 233548 35% 152405 4 Sep 89 09:29:10 c/virtex 1203 28% 870 10 Sep 89 09:58:10 copying.list 3275 53% 1542 10 Sep 89 09:33:58 copying.tex 2334 57% 992 27 Feb 89 09:17:34 devs/mountlist 232 44% 131 23 Jun 89 10:19:36 devs/system-configuration 1388 24% 1056 15 Jun 87 20:22:44 dme/POSTER 924 30% 650 15 Jun 87 20:19:50 dme/README 2566 73% 681 15 Jun 87 20:19:58 dme/README.info 2392 34% 1579 15 Jun 87 20:19:54 dme/ToDo 49452 29% 35270 15 Jun 87 20:19:10 dme/dme 250 50% 125 15 Jun 87 20:18:56 dme/dme.info 2742 35% 1769 10 Sep 89 13:43:44 etexinfo.tex 1366 30% 959 16 Nov 89 08:36:36 fish.bak 2516 25% 1885 16 Nov 89 08:40:28 fish.dvi 318 27% 232 16 Nov 89 08:52:38 fish.err 668 16% 562 16 Nov 89 08:40:30 fish.log 1367 30% 957 16 Nov 89 08:38:42 fish.tex 1210 29% 857 10 Sep 89 10:02:18 kopieren.liste 3256 52% 1572 10 Sep 89 09:26:12 kopieren.tex 4500 24% 3412 2 Jan 89 17:11:00 l/dmouse-handler 829 24% 628 15 Nov 89 18:34:38 lastnews.bak 882 24% 671 16 Nov 89 08:31:48 lastnews.note 14396 12% 12607 29 Dec 88 08:44:12 libs/arp.library 29 24% 22 29 Aug 89 07:56:34 mem.opt 433 15% 370 15 Nov 89 18:35:16 neues.notiz 9400 47% 4994 16 Dec 88 12:11:50 pddocs/DMouse.Doc 33139 47% 17464 29 Dec 88 08:24:56 pddocs/shell.doc 11436 49% 5831 10 Dec 88 23:36:48 pddocs/snipit.doc 130915 26% 97367 4 Sep 89 17:08:32 plain.fmt 21 0% 21 29 Dec 88 08:59:30 s/shell 12 0% 12 4 May 87 09:55:40 s/shell.bak 1075 31% 742 16 Nov 89 09:03:06 s/startup 18 0% 18 29 Dec 88 09:07:40 s/startup-sequence 122 10% 110 29 Dec 88 08:59:12 s/startup-sequence.bak 1193 32% 810 10 Sep 89 10:25:54 s/startup.bak 650 30% 458 16 Nov 89 09:05:56 tex.log 27363 47% 14615 9 Sep 89 14:35:50 tex.tex 4109 38% 2557 14 Oct 89 07:05:12 texinfo.tex -------- --- -------- --------- -------- 621471 33% 415792 47 files
wizard@sosaria.imp.com (Chris Brand) (04/12/90)
I have installed CommonTex on my machine. Here's a quick overview what's available and how much it costs: The system is split into modules, you only have to buy the modules you want: 1) basic TEX system (4 disks including tex, some fonts, the format files plain, latex, plaing and latexg (german versions), previewer and 120 dpi 24 pin printer driver) 40.- DM (10 DM is about 5.5 US$) 2) 180 dpi 24 pin printer driver with fonts (3 disks) 30.- DM 3) 360 dpi 24 pin printer driver with fonts (5 disks) 50.- DM 4) INITEX (2 disks) 20.- DM 5) Source codes (2 disks) 20.- DM 6) LaTEX book, TEX book (4 disks) 40.- DM 7) Metafont (7 disks) 70.- DM 8) GnuTEX (adapted version of GnuPlot) (2 disks) 40.- DM 9) Tangle/Weave/P2C (3 disks) 50.- DM 10) Deskjet/Laserjet printer driver with fonts (11 disks) 120.- DM 11) Epson 9 pin printer driver with fonts (6 disks) 60.- DM 12) Demos and macros (2 disks) 20.- DM 13) BibTEX 20.- DM The system was compiled on a Sun using GNU CC, thus it's much faster than Aztec-compiled versions (or so the author says, don't flame me for this :-). It comes with installation scripts, documentation (not much) and demo .tex files. Of course it's public domain, you can copy it but you're not allowed to make it available via bbs or ftp or sell it as public domain. You're right, for public domain the prices are high enough, but since the system is really good (I didn't have any guru yet and it's FAST) I think it's all right. If you have any problems you can even call the author himself, he offers this service. What I like very much about it is the fact that it supports all European formats (e.g. for letters, DIN A4) and all those special characters like vd| without having to type something like \"o for v (yesyes, you could include that yourself with a macro, but for a beginner it's always better to have such things included). I also bought the LaTEX book by Leslie Lamport ----> never saw something equally amazing before. I love it! You can get CommonTEX at the following address: Wolf Computertechnik Deipe Stegge 187 4420 Coesfeld West Germany Tel. 02541/2874 The author is: Frank W|bbeling Stadtlohnweg 33/E30 4400 M|nster West Germany Tel. 0251/866261 -- ------------------------------------ Chris Brand - wizard@sosaria.imp.com "Justice is the possession and doing of what one is entitled to" - Platon ------------------------------------
emv@math.lsa.umich.edu (Edward Vielmetti) (04/13/90)
In article <02918.AA02918@sosaria.imp.com> wizard@sosaria.imp.com (Chris Brand) writes:
I have installed CommonTex on my machine. Here's a quick overview what's
available and how much it costs:
The system is split into modules, you only have to buy the modules you
want:
[most things 20.- -- 70.- DM each, including INITEX, LaTEX, source codes,
Metafont, GnuTEX (adapted version of GnuPlot), BibTEX etc.]
The system was compiled on a Sun using GNU CC, thus it's much faster than
Aztec-compiled versions (or so the author says, don't flame me for this
:-). It comes with installation scripts, documentation (not much) and demo
.tex files.
Of course it's public domain, you can copy it but you're not
^^^
allowed to make it available via bbs or ftp or sell it as public
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
domain. You're right, for public domain the prices are high enough,
but since the system is really good (I didn't have any guru yet and
it's FAST) I think it's all right. If you have any problems you can
even call the author himself, he offers this service.
You can get CommonTEX at the following address:
Wolf Computertechnik
Deipe Stegge 187
4420 Coesfeld
West Germany
Tel. 02541/2874
The author is:
Frank W|bbeling
Stadtlohnweg 33/E30
4400 M|nster
West Germany
Tel. 0251/866261
Uh, if it's really public domain you can do anything you want with
it, and some of these codes may be copylefted. Not to slight
W|bbeling's work, but this smacks suspiciously of software hoarding....
Best to refer to the original details of the message to see how
this looks.
--Ed
Edward Vielmetti, U of Michigan math dept.
emv@math.lsa.umich.edupapa@pollux.usc.edu (Marco Papa) (04/13/90)
In article <02918.AA02918@sosaria.imp.com> wizard@sosaria.imp.com (Chris Brand) writes: >I have installed CommonTex on my machine. Here's a quick overview what's >available and how much it costs: [stuff deleted] >Of course it's public domain, you can copy it but you're not allowed to make it >available via bbs or ftp or sell it as public domain. You're right, for >public domain the prices are high enough, but since the system is really >good (I didn't have any guru yet and it's FAST) I think it's all right. If it is public domain there are *NO* restrictions on its redistribution and NO reason to pay ANY money for it. If it is just a "compilation" of Dr. Knuth code, then it is DEFINITELY public domain. Note the AmigaTeX is NOT public domain at all, since the code is highly modified from the original Stanford Distribution and contains features not available in the PD version (previewer, Arexx ports, etc..). -- Marco -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= "Xerox sues somebody for copying?" -- David Letterman -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=
jwhitman@STL-06SIMA.ARMY.MIL (Jerry Whitman) (09/06/90)
A couple months ago I sent out a LISTSERV request for the CommonTEX distribution and received several parts but there were several that did not make it through to me. For various reasons I have not gotten around to following up on it till recently. When I resent the request I got a "MAILFAILED -Host Unknown". The LISTSERV address I used in each incident was: MAMMUTTI.UTU.FI!LISTSERV@UUNET.UU.NET Does some one have a correction to that address, or another site that can provide the CommonTEX distribution? Any help appreciated. Regards, Jerry Whitman - keeper of the FishXref and FishCon.