[comp.text] TeX and System V

carvalho@ucbvax.UUCP (03/26/87)

How do go about installing TeX in a System V machine ( a ATT 3B2 in our case).
I've heard of Common TeX , but how do I get hold of printer drivers and fonts?
Are there any commercial packages?

Thanks 
	Marcio

jules@zen.UUCP (03/29/87)

In article <18006@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU> carvalho@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU (Marcio de Carvalho) writes:
>How do go about installing TeX in a System V machine ( a ATT 3B2 in our case).
>I've heard of Common TeX , but how do I get hold of printer drivers and fonts?
>Are there any commercial packages?

We have TeX  running  on a System V machine  (actually  it's HP-UX on an
hp9000s500)  which  is a port of the  tex82  distribution  (it's  all in
Pascal).  We have change  files for initex, tex (virtex is not  possible
on a Series 500), tangle, weave etc and also for dviplus (the  LaserJet+
driver).  I have nearly finished a C version of the LaserJet driver.

We also have a program to convert  LaserJet+  soft  fonts into TeX pixel
files so that TeX can use them.

Does anybody want this stuff.....should I post it.....mod.sources???

Jules

P.S.  For those who don't  know; TeX was  written  in WEB (a system  for
      structured  documentation)  which  can  build  either  the  Pascal
      program,  or create a  beautiful  TeX  document  for  printing.  A
      change  file is used  to  modify  the  WEB  file  for  any  system
      dependencies.

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