OBRIEN%OBRIEN@VENUS.YCC.YALE.EDU ("James A. O'Brien 432-4382", 203) (11/17/88)
To: INFO-DEC-MICRO
INFO-IBMPC
Re: SBTeX for MS-DOS PCs
A public domain implementation of TeX V2.93 is now available for anonymous
FTP from VENUS.YCC.YALE.EDU. The file is in the default directory on
login and is called SBTEX.ARC. It was archived using PKPAK V3.61. The
archive is 651 521k blocks (i.e. 326 kbytes) in size.
This implementation was developed by Wayne G. Sulllivan of the Department
of Mathematics at University College Dublin in Ireland using Turbo Pascal
V4.0. The archive contains enough to build a working PLAIN TeX on any MS-DOS
PC with at least 512k of memory (although 640k or more is much better e.g.
DEC Rainbows have 896k). Included are TEX.EXE, INITEX.EXE, the PLAIN format,
and TFMs for the 16 basic CM fonts in the PLAIN format. Full details on
installation are contained in SBTEX.DOC in the archive, and an INSTAL.BAT
file is provided.
SBTeX has already gone through extensive testing both at UCD and at Yale,
and is believed to be relatively bug-free. It has been verified to run
on PC hardware as well as on a DEC Rainbow. It should run on any 80x86/8
processor machine which runs MS-DOS. Reports of any bugs should be
addressed to the author, Wayne G. Sullivan, WSULIVAN@IRLEARN.BITNET
(note only one "L" in the ID).
11/15/88
Jim O'Brien
Department of Chemical Engineering
Yale University
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