ilan343@violet.berkeley.edu (Geraldo Veiga) (12/09/90)
I would like to install TeX 3.0 on a 486 machine running Unix/386. What in the net-wisdom is the least painful way of going about it? I am considering 3 or 4 possibilities: 1. Web2c package 2. Standard web + p2c 3. Maybe there is a site where I can pick up Unix/386 "ready-to-wear" binaries for initex, virtex and bibtex (I don't think I am ready for metafont yet) 4. Is CommonTeX 3.0 a viable alternative right now? Thanks for your suggestions.
james@bigtex.cactus.org (James Van Artsdalen) (12/10/90)
In <1990Dec9.124041.26553@agate.berkeley.edu>, tree1@cmsa.berkeley.edu wrote: > I would like to install TeX 3.0 on a 486 machine running Unix/386. > What in the net-wisdom is the least painful way of going about it? > I am considering 3 or 4 possibilities: > 1. Web2c package > 2. Standard web + p2c I essentially just typed "make" and the TeX Stanford distribution worked as is. I think I did use gcc in place of PCC. -- James R. Van Artsdalen james@bigtex.cactus.org "Live Free or Die" Dell Computer Co 9505 Arboretum Blvd Austin TX 78759 512-338-8789
tml@tik.vtt.fi (Tor Lillqvist) (12/10/90)
In article <1990Dec9.124041.26553@agate.berkeley.edu> ilan343@violet.berkeley.edu (Geraldo Veiga) writes:
3. Maybe there is a site where I can pick up Unix/386 "ready-to-wear"
binaries for initex, virtex and bibtex (I don't think I am ready for
metafont yet)
Look in hemuli.tik.vtt.fi:pub/tex/bin-386ix. There are executables of
TeX et al for 386/ix. Compiled using my ptc-tex setup (look for it in
../ptc-tex-*.tar.Z) with gcc 1.37.1. I don't actually use TeX on a
386/ix machine, but I have checked that they pass the trip and trap
tests.
--
Tor Lillqvist,
working, but not speaking, for the Technical Research Centre of Finlandilan343@violet.berkeley.edu (Geraldo Veiga) (12/14/90)
In article <50948@bigtex.cactus.org> james@bigtex.cactus.org (James Van Artsdalen) writes: >In <1990Dec9.124041.26553@agate.berkeley.edu>, tree1@cmsa.berkeley.edu wrote: > >> I would like to install TeX 3.0 on a 486 machine running Unix/386. >> What in the net-wisdom is the least painful way of going about it? > >> I am considering 3 or 4 possibilities: >> 1. Web2c package >> 2. Standard web + p2c > >I essentially just typed "make" and the TeX Stanford distribution >worked as is. I think I did use gcc in place of PCC. >-- First of all, thanks to everyone that aswered to my original posting. Next, another question. Using the Unix3.0 (Web2C) distribution seems to be the safest way to go, but is the Unix distribution "SysV friendly"? From the bits I've seen in the unix3.0 directory at Labrea.stanford, even some file names are over the dreaded 14-character SysV limit. Is it going to be as easy as typing "make" under UNIX/386? Thanks in advance
rmtodd@servalan.uucp (Richard Todd) (12/15/90)
ilan343@violet.berkeley.edu (Geraldo Veiga) writes: >Using the Unix3.0 (Web2C) distribution seems to be the safest way to >go, but is the Unix distribution "SysV friendly"? From the bits I've >seen in the unix3.0 directory at Labrea.stanford, even some file names >are over the dreaded 14-character SysV limit. >Is it going to be as easy as typing "make" under UNIX/386? > Thanks in advance Well, I built TeX on A/UX 1.1 (SysVR2, with the dreaded 14-char limit), and don't recall the filename limit causing any problems. Basically, all I had to do was edit the config file for web2c and type "make". I'd be rather surprised if UNIX/386 had problems with it. -- Richard Todd rmtodd@uokmax.ecn.uoknor.edu rmtodd@chinet.chi.il.us rmtodd@servalan.uucp "Try looking in the Yellow Pages under 'Psychotics'." -- Michael Santana
mike@cimcor.mn.org (Michael Grenier) (12/16/90)
> > Using the Unix3.0 (Web2C) distribution seems to be the safest way to > go, but is the Unix distribution "SysV friendly"? From the bits I've > seen in the unix3.0 directory at Labrea.stanford, even some file names > are over the dreaded 14-character SysV limit. > > Is it going to be as easy as typing "make" under UNIX/386? > I can't answer the above question but I do know of even an easier way if you have $195. (Cheap Ad follows :-) You can buy TeX from Scandia Microsystems (612-464-6056) which includes all the dvi drivers, macros, and other goodies like a troff(5) to TeX dvi converter, the xdvi previewer, METAFONT 2.0, BBS support, etc. The dvi drivers know how to invoke METAFONT as needed to get the fonts correct (Of course, if the font already exists, METAFONT is not reinvoked). It comes in installpkg format ready to go. Let me know if you want details. -Mike Grenier mike@cimcor.mn.org