ejbehr@rs6000.cmp.ilstu.edu (Eric Behr) (03/20/91)
Hi; this was probably discussed, but I subscribed only recently. Is there a publicly available port of plain TeX which would run on the RS/6000 530? If not, what about commercial implementations, if any? Thanks a lot. Please reply by mail - I can summarize if there's interest. -- Eric Behr, Illinois State University, Mathematics Department Internet: ejbehr@rs6000.cmp.ilstu.edu Bitnet: ebehr@ilstu
scott@prism.gatech.EDU (Scott Holt) (03/20/91)
In article <1991Mar19.171405.4614@rs6000.cmp.ilstu.edu> ejbehr@rs6000.cmp.ilstu.edu (Eric Behr) writes: >Hi; this was probably discussed, but I subscribed only recently. >Is there a publicly available port of plain TeX which would run on the >RS/6000 530? If not, what about commercial implementations, if any? >Thanks a lot. Please reply by mail - I can summarize if there's interest. The UNIX TeX distribution from the University of Washington is a good starting place. I started with that and have installed TeX on our 6000s - though I have not yet verified that it passes the trip-test. Most of the changes I needed to make were pulled from a plain TeX distribution on the science.utah.edu server. The UWash stuff is on uunet.uu.net and a number of other servers, you can also get it from UWash on tape for a fee. I found the UWash stuff easier to install than the stuff on science.utah.edu, but you should probably look at both in order to figure out what files need changing. - Scott -- This is my signature. There are many like it, but this one is mine. Scott Holt Internet: scott@prism.gatech.edu Georgia Tech UUCP: ..!gatech!prism!scott Office of Information Technology, Technical Services
hull@ibma0.cs.uiuc.edu (David Hull) (03/21/91)
scott@prism.gatech.EDU (Scott Holt) writes: >ejbehr@rs6000.cmp.ilstu.edu (Eric Behr) writes: >>Is there a publicly available port of plain TeX which would run on the >>RS/6000 530? >The UNIX TeX distribution from the University of Washington is a good >starting place. I think that labrea.stanford.edu is the place to go for the latest TeX sources. The UW site with the TeX sources is june.cs.washington.edu. -David Hull
ejbehr@rs6000.cmp.ilstu.edu (Eric Behr) (03/21/91)
David Hull <hull@cs.uiuc.edu> writes: > >I think that labrea.stanford.edu is the place to go for the latest TeX >sources. The UW site with the TeX sources is june.cs.washington.edu. I'll summarize replies soon, but for those impatient souls: according to Andrew Assad, byron.u.washington.edu in directory /pub/aix has a ready-to-run AIX version. I haven't tried it yet. Thanks to all who responded! E. -- Eric Behr, Illinois State University, Mathematics Department Internet: ejbehr@rs6000.cmp.ilstu.edu Bitnet: ebehr@ilstu