arnold@skeeve.UUCP (Arnold D. Robbins) (02/22/89)
Did we ever reach a conclusion as to the availability of TeX for the Unix/PC? I was able to pick up the DVI previewer from hotel.cis.ksu.edu. And I saw the source for C-TeX. But I was hoping to find a binary for TeX already compiled so that I wouldn't have to go to a lot of trouble and make room on my disk. Basically, all I would like to be able to do is run TeX and use the previewer. I don't intend to do any printing off my 3B1, so I don't need all the font bitmaps and stuff. Thanks in Advance, -- "Crack-pot societies of all kinds sprang up everwhere, advocating everything from absolutism to anarchy. Queer cults arose, preaching free love, the imminent end of the world, and many other departures from the norm of thought." E.E. "Doc" Smith, Children of the Lens, 1954 | Arnold Robbins, skeeve!arnold
mike@stolaf.acc.stolaf.edu (Mike Haertel) (02/24/89)
In article <161@skeeve.UUCP> arnold@skeeve.UUCP (Arnold D. Robbins) writes: >Did we ever reach a conclusion as to the availability of TeX for the >Unix/PC? I was able to pick up the DVI previewer from hotel.cis.ksu.edu. >And I saw the source for C-TeX. But I was hoping to find a binary >for TeX already compiled so that I wouldn't have to go to a lot of >trouble and make room on my disk. > >Basically, all I would like to be able to do is run TeX and use the previewer. >I don't intend to do any printing off my 3B1, so I don't need all the font >bitmaps and stuff. > >Thanks in Advance, >-- >"Crack-pot societies of all kinds sprang up everwhere, advocating everything >from absolutism to anarchy. Queer cults arose, preaching free love, the >imminent end of the world, and many other departures from the norm of thought." >E.E. "Doc" Smith, Children of the Lens, 1954 | Arnold Robbins, skeeve!arnold I have been running TeX on my Unix PC for some time now, with no trouble, compiled with gcc-1.31. I have an epson printer, and I use the DVI driver available from cs.utah.edu. TeX itself is version 2.93, from the TeX-to-C distribution available from labrea.stanford.edu. I have a complete collection of some 400 fonts (all the CM fonts in all the sizes) generated from the Metafont source (I also run Metafont) on the Unix TeX distribution tape available from the University of Washington. The binaries for TeX, Metafont, and their friends come to about 1 megabyte. The PK format font images, TeX macro files, and predumped formats total about 4 megabytes (with the fonts comprising the bulk of that). The Metafont support files (including full source for the computer modern fonts) are about 1 megabyte. It's all compiled with the 3.51 shared libraries, possibly limiting its potential usefulness to people with older versions of the system. If there is sufficient interest I will see if I can make it available via anonymous ftp or perhaps uucp. -- Mike Haertel <mike@stolaf.edu> In Hell they run VMS.
brant@manta.pha.pa.us (Brant Cheikes) (02/24/89)
In article <161@skeeve.UUCP> arnold@skeeve.UUCP (Arnold D. Robbins) writes: >Did we ever reach a conclusion as to the availability of TeX for the >Unix/PC? As Ed Hepler hasn't spoken up, it looks like what you want--- UNIXpc binaries--- are no longer available. The kernel TeX system consists of these files: -rwxr-xr-x 1 bin bin 156680 Dec 7 14:15 virtex -rw-r--r-- 1 brant users 269022 Dec 7 14:12 lplain.fmt -rw-r--r-- 1 brant users 158091 Jul 29 1988 plain.fmt -rwxr-xr-x 1 bin bin 69636 Feb 16 20:34 bibtex [optional] LaTeX is had by the command "virtex \&lplain $*," TeX by "virtex \&plain $*." If these are all that people want, I can easily make them available. But you really need other files to actually process a TeX or LaTeX source file, including style files (for articles, reports, books, etc.) and the basic font definition files (*.tfm). That turns out to be a significant amount of stuff (another 200 Kb+?). People with FTP access can get most of that stuff from hotel.cis.ksu.edu as well as score.stanford.edu (in <tex>, <tex.bibtex>, and <tex.fonts> areas). I haven't heard anything about uucp availability. I'll end there. If you're interested in getting TeX but are having trouble putting the pieces together, let me know and I'll see what I can do. If you don't know what TeX or LaTeX is, get to your nearest bookstore with a decent Comp Sci collection and check out "The TeXbook" by Don Knuth and "LaTeX User's Guide" by Leslie Lamport. -- Brant Cheikes University of Pennsylvania, Department of Computer and Information Science brant@manta.pha.pa.us, brant@linc.cis.upenn.edu, bpa!manta!brant