SINGPANG%HLERUL5.BITNET@wiscvm.wisc.EDU (02/17/87)
Hello all, does anyone know of a version of the wordprocessor TEX from D.Knuth for CP/M 2.2 or MSDOS?. I understand there is a public domain source of the program in PASCAL. Does anyone have it?? CAn someone tell me the difference between TYPELZ and the other programs that axist to type, unpack?? crunched files (with extension *.?z?). Thanks in advance Marc
ken@CS.ROCHESTER.EDU (02/17/87)
TeX probably has no chance of fitting on any 8 bit micro. There are commercial TeX's for MSDOS. The problem with porting the software yourself is that TeX is a good torture test of Pascal compilers. There is also a C version. You can FTP TeX sources from score.stanford.edu at off-peak hours. The problem is not just porting TeX, you have to bring up the fonts and device drivers. There is a lot of code and data involved. The Unix TeX tape has 35 Mb of goodies. Ken