stevens@hsi.UUCP (Richard Stevens) (09/20/88)
I am in need of bringing up TeX and LaTeX on a vanilla 4.3 BSD VAX. (We've never needed TeX before, being troff-users, but we've just gotten the ISODE-4.0 release and their 800+ page manual is in LaTeX format, so its time to bite the bullet.) What's the easiest way to do this ?? - We're connected to uunet, and I see a TeX release is there (22 Mb worth). - I've also heard of a UNIX release tape from U. Washington. - Would the TeX at uunet include LaTeX ?? - We have PostScript LaserWriters, so I assume we'd need the dvi2ps program also ?? - Is TeX still written in Pascal, and if so, can I assume the 4.3 BSD pascal compiler is adequate ?? Thanks for any leads. Richard Stevens Health Systems International, New Haven, CT stevens@hsi.uu.net ... { uunet | yale } ! hsi ! stevens
jos@idca.tds.PHILIPS.nl (Jos Vos) (09/21/88)
In article <166@hsi86.hsi.UUCP> stevens@hsi.UUCP (Richard Stevens) writes: >I am in need of bringing up TeX and LaTeX on a vanilla 4.3 BSD VAX. I have to bring up TeX/LaTeX for a System V UNIX system, with PostScript printers. So, we *should* have the same problem :-) . >- We're connected to uunet, and I see a TeX release is there (22 Mb worth). Is there a version in Europe? (Sorry, I'm not on the Internet). >- I've also heard of a UNIX release tape from U. Washington. Me too. Does it include the same things as the UUNET stuff? >- Would the TeX at uunet include LaTeX ?? The U. Washington distribution does (I only have a more general overview). >- We have PostScript LaserWriters, so I assume we'd need the dvi2ps > program also ?? In the U. Washington distribution is a (I don't know which) driver for PostScript printers, if I understand the mailing correctly. Please let anyone having "the total overview" of TeX distributions post it. And be clear about languages and needed compilers! It will help a lot of people, I think. -- -- ###### Jos Vos ###### Internet jos@idca.tds.philips.nl ###### -- ###### ###### UUCP ...!mcvax!philapd!jos ######