[comp.text.tex] Additions and changes to Listserv and DANTE FTP server

JL2@DHDURZ1.BITNET (Rainer Schoepf) (03/11/91)

There have been a few interesting additions to the LISTSERV@DHDURZ1:
 
In TEX FILELIST, there are two new important files called
 
README   FIRST
CHANGES  LISTING
 
Before ordering stuff from the list server you should indeed read
the first of these.  The second one contains a reverse chronological
listing of what has been added/changed.  I append it here for the time
being:
 
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File: CHANGES LISTING
Date: 91/03/11
 
General:
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We are currently in the process of reducing all file sizes to below 64kB.
 
 
  DATE    FILELIST  FILENAME  FILETYPE  DESCRIPTION
 
91/03/11  DRIVER    DVIPS     *         dvips 5.47, by Tom Rokicki
 
91/03/06  TTOOLS    EDMAC     *         EDMAC macro package
 
91/03/05  TEX-UTIL  ZOOMIPSU  UUE       ZOO executable for MIPS/ULTRIX
91/03/05  TEX-UTIL  FIZMIPSU  UUE       FIZ executable for MIPS/ULTRIX
 
91/03/04  MFSOURCE  OCRB      *         OCR B fonts
91/03/04  MFSOURCE  DCFONT    *         256 character fonts
91/03/04  TUGBOAT   TUGPROC   *         TUG proceedings abstracts
 
91/03/01  TEX-UTIL  UNZIP401  *         Sources for public domain unzip
91/03/01  TEX-UTIL  UNZ_SUN4  UUE       Executable for Sun Sparc
 
91/02/28  PC-MSDOS  RUMGRAPH  *         Update
91/02/28  TEX       README    FIRST     Updated version
91/02/28  TEX       DIRTY     TRICKS    How to access the archive
 
91/02/26  TEX       CHANGES   LISTING   Lists recent changes
 
91/02/25  LATEX     LATEX     BUG       New version
91/02/25  LATEX     LPLAIN    TEX       New version
91/02/25  LATEX     SFONTS    TEX       New version
91/02/25  LATEX     SPLAIN    TEX       New version
 
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The DANTE FTP server at Stuttgart is currently being reorganized,
which has already caused some confusion (the most frequently asked
question being ``Where has emTeX gone???!!!'').  If you cannot find
something under soft/tex, try soft/texold.  We hope to have this
settled by the end of March.
 
The probably most interesting item on the above list, namely the
256 character fonts can be found in soft/tex/fonts/metafont/dc.
 
Finally, to stall another frequently asked question:
 
To access the listserv, send mail to <LISTSERV@DHDURZ1.BITNET>.
If you have never accessed a LISTSERV-type server before, put the
following two lines into your mail message:
 
HELP
GET README FIRST TEX
 
To access the Dante FTP server, do FTP to rusmv1.rus.uni-stuttgart.de,
129.69.1.12.
 
Rainer Sch"opf
DANTE-coordinator for servers
 
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Dr. Rainer Schoepf
Konrad-Zuse-Zentrum                         ,,Ich mag es nicht, wenn
 fuer Informationstechnik Berlin              sich die Dinge so frueh
Heilbronner Str. 10                           am Morgen schon so
D-1000 Berlin 31                              dynamisch entwickeln!''
Federal Republic of Germany
Email: <Schoepf@sc.ZIB-Berlin.de> or <Schoepf@sc.ZIB-Berlin.dbp.de>
 
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