weening@labrea.Stanford.EDU (Joe Weening) (03/18/89)
A new Unix TeX distribution from the University of Washington is now available for anonymous ftp on labrea.stanford.edu. This contains version 2.95 of TeX, version 1.7 of Metafont, and many other updated files. Almost all of the TeX and Metafont code is set up to be converted from Pascal to C, so no Pascal compiler is needed. To get a copy of this distribution: 1. Please do not ftp between 9am and 6pm, Pacific time. Labrea is a poor VAX-11/750 and can't handle much of a load. 2. Open an ftp connection as follows: % ftp labrea.stanford.edu Name: anonymous Password: guest (or your name) ftp> cd pub/tex 3. If you know you want to get everything: ftp> binary ftp> mget * This will copy over 20 megabytes of files. 4. If you want to be more selective: ftp> get README ftp> get COPYING.POLICY README gives a general overview of the files, and COPYING.POLICY includes a list of all of the files. Be sure to set "binary" mode before transferring any of the other files. An important change in this distribution is that GF files are no longer distributed for most fonts, but PK files are. There is a program to convert PK files to GF files, if you need it. -- Joe Weening Computer Science Dept. weening@Labrea.Stanford.EDU Stanford University