nzhang@ee.su.oz.au (Ning Zhang) (11/21/90)
Sorry if those are most common questions in the group. I downloaded PCTeX 2.9 and DVIVGA from WUSTL archiver a couple of days ago and installed on my PC 386SX without problem. Here are the problems I had with the package: 1. The LaTeX command is very slow, even my PC runs at 20MHz and has 2MB memory. I guess the instruction in the .EXE files are of 8086. Is any version specially for 386 PCs, both commericial or PD? Is the lastest version, i.e. 3.0 available? 2. The LaTeX occasionally failed when handling some tex files which can be correctly processed on SUN workstations. The most common error messages I had was "Sorry, no enough memory (max 300001)". But the others were complaining something are not properly defined. Could you tell me what is the reason behind the failure? 3. I tried the SBTeX 3.0 and it supposed faster than PCTeX. But I could not find the LaTeX command and I don't know how to build it from INITEX. Also it didn't include any fonts with it. Please tell me how to setup a working version of SBTeX on PC. 4. The DVIVGA command is for EGA/VGA only. I don't have MS WIN version and I don't want to use WIN. Is there is a better version of DVIVGA which could operate for SuperVGA, TVGA, etc., as they have high resolution than the normal VGA? Please e-mail me your reply. Thanks in advance. -Ning
len@schur. (Len Evens) (11/21/90)
In article <1990Nov20.231558.28900@metro.ucc.su.OZ.AU> nzhang@ee.su.oz.au (Ning Zhang) writes: > >Sorry if those are most common questions in the group. > >I downloaded PCTeX 2.9 and DVIVGA from WUSTL archiver a couple of days ago >and installed on my PC 386SX without problem. Here are the problems I had >with the package: What does this mean? PCTeX is a commercial product sold by Personal TeX. How can one legitimately ``download'' it? It seems to me that these people offer a reasonable product at a reasonable price for those of us who either don't have the time or don't have the inclination to set up a public domain version. Myself, I would use either SBTeX or EmTeX. In this case it is neither ethical nor necessary to engage in theft. Leonard Evens len@math.nwu.edu 708-491-5537 Dept. of Mathematics, Northwestern Univ., Evanston, IL 60208
jeffj@mcs213j.cs.umr.edu (Jeff Jenness) (11/26/90)
In article <1207@casbah.acns.nwu.edu> len@schur (Len Evens) writes: >In article <1990Nov20.231558.28900@metro.ucc.su.OZ.AU> nzhang@ee.su.oz.au (Ning Zhang) writes: >> >>Sorry if those are most common questions in the group. >> >>I downloaded PCTeX 2.9 and DVIVGA from WUSTL archiver a couple of days ago >>and installed on my PC 386SX without problem. Here are the problems I had >>with the package: > > >What does this mean? PCTeX is a commercial product sold by Personal >TeX. How can one legitimately ``download'' it? It seems to me I'm sure Len that this is just a slip of the tongue. The TeX packages available on WUSTL are all noncommercial. The PCTeX referred to is the DOSTeX package (so I believe), SBTeX and SBMF are also available on WUSTL. Jeff Jenness jeffj@cs.umr.edu -- Jeff Jenness University of Missouri - Rolla jeffj@cs.umr.edu
LIRAKLIO@MIAMIU.BITNET (LEO J IRAKLIOTIS) (11/26/90)
I need a public domain version of TeX for Apple Mac II. If you know any place I can download (FTP etc) it, please contact me at BITNet .........: LIRAKLIO @ MIAMIU InterNet .......: LIRAKLIO @ MIAMIU.ACS.MUOHIO.EDU Thanx. Leo Irakliotis Miami OH Physics