mg@cidam.rmit.oz.AU ("Mike A. Gigante") (12/22/88)
I have had a few queries about how to get these up and going on the Iris. It is really very simple, I ftp'd commontex from berkeley and built initex and virtex (BIG model). It is written in portable C and works straight off. I took the U of Washington standard unix TeX tape and grabbed the CM fonts, the .tfm files, the input files and format files nexessary to build a normal TeX. I also grabbed the LaTeX fonts and macros from that tape and built LaTeX. The UoW distribution contains everything necessary to build TeX, I believe that it even includes commontex in the distribution now. Thanks for the suggestions about previewers and the like. Phil Dykstra of BRL suggested texx (off the X11 distribution) as a good starting point (or if I had X.... I could use it directly) I have collected a couple of likely candidates from which to build a previewer. I'll post some results at a later date. There seems to be big demand for TeX, perhaps I should make what i have done available for the contributed software tape.. Mike