chris@wuarchive.wustl.edu (Chris Myers) (09/18/90)
The Digital Equipment Computer Users' Society and Washington University in Saint Louis are proud to announce the availability of the recently released DECUS TeX tape for access over the Internet. A great deal of work has been put into making this collection, and both DECUS and Washington University would like to thank the many people who spent the thousands of hours necessary to make it possible. The eight parts which compose the DECUS TeX tape are available for anonymous FTP from wuarchive.wustl.edu [128.252.135.4]. All of the various parts of this tape are stored in the directory "/decus/tex". Please retrieve the file "COPYING" first since it contains important information you will need to copy the BACKUP savesets. You should also first retrieve the 000_instruct BACKUP saveset since it contains important information about the contents of the various savesets and how to install the TeX programs. Washington University regrets that under no circumstances can it provide copies of the DECUS Symposia or TeX Tapes on any form of media, nor can it honor requests for individual files from the Symposia or TeX tapes. Questions about the Washington University archives (only) should be e-mailed to archives@wugate.wustl.edu. The approximate size of each part of the TeX tape is shown below, in kilobytes (1 kilobyte is 2 disk blocks): 74 /decus/tex/000_instruct 27440 /decus/tex/tex 1730 /decus/tex/tex__amiga 13994 /decus/tex/tex__macintosh 16220 /decus/tex/tex__msdos 7754 /decus/tex/tex__unix 26242 /decus/tex/tex_fonts 5718 /decus/tex/tex_periodicals (*) 60116 /decus/tex/tex_source (*) NOTE: The Tex_periodicals saveset is not on the normal DECUS TeX distribution since it would overflow a normal 2400' 6250-bpi tape. It contains ZOO archives of TeXHax and TeXMag and is being made available for anonymous FTP for your convenience. You can get an application for membership in the DECUS U.S. Chapter by calling (508) 480-3635. Sites which wish to get magnetic tape or CD-ROM copies of the DECUS Symposia Tapes should contact their DECUS Local User Group or the DECUS Library at: DECUS Library (BP02) 219 Boston Post Road Marlboro, MA 01752-1850 (508) 480-3418 / (508) 480-3659 / (508) 480-3446 -- Chris Myers Internet: chris@wugate.wustl.edu Software Engineer UUCP: ...!uunet!wuarchive!chris Office of the Network Coordinator BITNET: chris@wunet.bitnet Washington University in Saint Louis Phone: +1 314 726 7390