jourdan@minos.inria.fr (Martin Jourdan) (08/22/90)
Archive-name: gpic/21-Aug-90 Original-posting-by: jourdan@minos.inria.fr (Martin Jourdan) Original-subject: Re: Where does one find tpic (VMS) Archive-site: prep.ai.mit.edu [18.71.0.38] Archive-directory: /pub/gnu Reposted-by: emv@math.lsa.umich.edu (Edward Vielmetti) Tpic is not freely distributed since it includes large chunks of source code from the original "pic" by AT&T. Hence, to get tpic you first need a license from AT&T for the source code of pic; then you contact Tim Morgan (morgan@ics.uci.edu) to have the rest. Another possibility is to get "gpic", the GNU clone of pic which has a TeX mode and produces tpic \specials. Gpic is part of groff (GNU reimplementation of nroff, troff and their preprocessors). Groff is available by anonymous FTP from prep.ai.mit.edu, in directory pub/gnu. The bad news is that groff is written in C++... In addition, I don't know anything of the compatibility of tpic and gpic. I hope this helps. Martin Jourdan <jourdan@minos.inria.fr>, INRIA, Rocquencourt, France.