chuq%plaid@Sun.COM (Chuq Von Rospach) (05/01/87)
Date: Fri, 1 May 87 11:00:52 pdt From: rtech!rtech!daveb (Dave Brower) I have heard rumours of a TEX translation in C. This would be usefull for people (like me) who don't have a Pascal compiler. Does anyone know the status of this, where to order, how much, etc? Thanks, -dB --------------------------------------------- Submisssions to: desktop%plaid@sun.com Administrivia to: desktop-request%plaid@sun.com Chuq Von Rospach chuq@sun.COM [I don't read flames] There is no statute of limitations on stupidity
chuq%plaid@Sun.COM (Chuq Von Rospach) (05/04/87)
From: ambar@BLOOM-BEACON.MIT.EDU (Jean Marie Diaz) Usnail: 3 Ames St. Cambridge, MA 02139 Nynex: (617) 225-6364 >Date: Fri, 1 May 87 11:00:52 pdt >From: rtech!rtech!daveb (Dave Brower) > >I have heard rumours of a TEX translation in C. This would be usefull >for people (like me) who don't have a Pascal compiler. Does anyone >know the status of this, where to order, how much, etc? Yes, it's the TeX we run here. Ours was/is the release-for-porting, still has some bugs, but we're very happy. The C translation, in a Unix environment, is much faster on a loaded machine (smaller binary -> less page faults...) Mail to monardo@renoir.berkeley.edu is probably your best bet. I don't mind making ours available for ftp, but you are warned -- it's buggy. If anyone is going to go to the trouble of uucp or mail transfer, you may as well get the real one (ie, send mail to ucbvax!ucbrenoir!monardo). We're pretty satisfied. Oh, yeah -- it's free, last I checked. (copy, but don't sell...) AMBAR --------------------------------------- Submissions to: desktop%plaid@sun.com Administrivia to: desktop-request%plaid@sun.com Chuq Von Rospach chuq@sun.COM [I don't read flames] There is no statute of limitations on stupidity