hart@cp1.BELL-ATL.COM (Rod Hart) (08/31/87)
I recently got ctex running on my 6300pc by hacking the file tex.h. When I try to run anything through it I get diagnostic messages that are foreign to me. Does anyone have documentation for ctex that could be sent to me via email? Next, just to play safe, I'll like to hear from anyone else who has been able to get ctex to run under MSDOS on a xt or clone.
rokicki@rocky.STANFORD.EDU (Tomas Rokicki) (09/01/87)
$ I recently got ctex running on my 6300pc by hacking the file tex.h. Please, folks, Pat Monardo's Common TeX is Common TeX; my version of TeX in C is CTeX. You might check out a copy of `TeX: The Program', Volume B of Computers and Typesetting by Don Knuth, published by Addison-Wesley. Everything you need should be in there. -tom
akk2@ur-tut.UUCP (Atul Kacker) (09/03/87)
In article <540@rocky.STANFORD.EDU> rokicki@rocky.UUCP (Tomas Rokicki) writes: >>>$ I recently got ctex running on my 6300pc by hacking the file tex.h. (This above comment is not from Tom) > >Please, folks, Pat Monardo's Common TeX is Common TeX; my version of >TeX in C is CTeX. >-tom I guess the reason for the Common TeX and CTeX confusion is that the tar file available from ucbvax for Common TeX is called ctex21.tar. Anyway, Tom is CTeX available for ftp from somewhere ? and what machines has it been ported to ? To the original poster who is getting it to work on a 6300pc : I am trying to get it running on an IBM PC AT and am having some problems. Could you send me your e-mail path so I could get in touch with you. -- ------------------------------------------------------------- Atul Kacker ...{seismo,topaz,nike}!rochester!ur-tut!akk2 OR akk2@tut.cc.rochester.edu -------------------------------------------------------------
allbery@ncoast.UUCP (Brandon Allbery) (09/04/87)
As quoted from <540@rocky.STANFORD.EDU> by rokicki@rocky.STANFORD.EDU (Tomas Rokicki): +--------------- | $ I recently got ctex running on my 6300pc by hacking the file tex.h. | | Please, folks, Pat Monardo's Common TeX is Common TeX; my version of | TeX in C is CTeX. +--------------- What other variants are there, what languages, are they shareware or PD or commercial or etc., how much do they cost, what kinds of systems are supported, and all that good stuff. TeX (in pascal) is pretty worthless when all you have is a C compiler... -- Brandon S. Allbery, moderator of comp.sources.misc {{harvard,mit-eddie}!necntc,well!hoptoad,sun!mandrill!hal}!ncoast!allbery ARPA: necntc!ncoast!allbery@harvard.harvard.edu Fido: 157/502 MCI: BALLBERY <<ncoast Public Access UNIX: +1 216 781 6201 24hrs. 300/1200/2400 baud>> ** Site "cwruecmp" has changed its name to "mandrill". Please re-address ** *** all mail to ncoast to pass through "mandrill" instead of "cwrueject: jec
rokicki@rocky.STANFORD.EDU (Tomas Rokicki) (09/04/87)
> Anyway, Tom is CTeX available for ftp from somewhere ? and what > machines has it been ported to ? No, CTeX is not available for ftp since it is a commercial product being licensed by n^2 Computer Consultants, Box 2736, College Station, TX 77841 (409) 845-3104. It's cheap, and it works. It's been ported to the IBM RT (under both OS's), all IRIS workstations, all SUN's, Vaxen running 4.3 BSD or Eunice, the Amiga, the Convex C-1, the 3B2 (and friends), PS/2 (where it runs like a champ), several Masscomps, the V system (SUN's), and practically anything else you can shake a stick at. It's about 20% faster and more organized than Common TeX, but the code is less readable and not as easy to modify. -tom
chris@mimsy.UUCP (Chris Torek) (09/07/87)
In article <540@rocky.STANFORD.EDU> rokicki@rocky.STANFORD.EDU (Tomas Rokicki) writes: >Please, folks, Pat Monardo's Common TeX is Common TeX; my version of >TeX in C is CTeX. ... and my version of Unix support for TeX, which is only a small part of what is in fact needed to support TeX, is `ctex'. I had the name first (the RCS file for verser1.c dates back to 20 May 1984, and the code was written earlier still), but I suspect I will also be the first to change names, especially since I stopped work on the TeX-in-C part long ago. (Sigh. I hate creating names.) -- In-Real-Life: Chris Torek, Univ of MD Comp Sci Dept (+1 301 454 7690) Domain: chris@mimsy.umd.edu Path: uunet!#!m:ietE PC
monardo@renoir.Berkeley.EDU (Pat Monardo) (09/07/87)
>In article <540@rocky.STANFORD.EDU> rokicki@rocky.UUCP (Tomas Rokicki) writes: >>>>$ I recently got ctex running on my 6300pc by hacking the file tex.h. > (This above comment is not from Tom) >> >>Please, folks, Pat Monardo's Common TeX is Common TeX; my version of >>TeX in C is CTeX. >>-tom Common TeX is the only freely avaiable C version of TeX and is the only source level (WEB) translation available. The source follows the TeX volumes exactly and assumes that you have them. CTeX is probably faster since instead of tuning Common TeX I embarked on a Metafont translation. This translation is done but not debugged. That means I dont fully understand the program yet and have just begun the debugging (learning) process. However, Metafont is a much more interesting program than TeX, which is why Common TeX has not been tuned up yet. However, it is solid and I have received one complaint since the second release and that was resolved the same day. ! N.B.: I dont distribute the entire TeX system. I made it available to ftp since the people who could use it were people who already have the TeX distribution and have a wide variety of strange machines, i.e. universities. I have a first shot at an AT port. In fact, ver 2.1 is the AT port. So I could help you with AT problems. The problem is that to run LaTeX requires modification to the basic TeX program and I didnt want to introduce incompatibilities. I have a LaTeX which can run healty jobs but I had to force it by hacking INITEX and it isnt stable. ?pat