[comp.text.tex] PICTEX manual available in gatekeeper.dec.com ?

daiyingshi@yvax.byu.edu (08/14/90)

Hi, Folks:

        I found there is a manual.dvi   in /text/tex/pictex/pictex.tar.Z
However, after I ftped this tar.z file, uncompressed it and untared it, I found
the manual exists only in .dvi form. I can only get four pages from our talaris
printer then I was told xxxx.tfm not found. When I tried to view this .dvi
file, the view program dumped me out. That's really strange.

        Anybody know why ?


        Dai YingShi

dhosek@sif.claremont.edu (Hosek, Donald A.) (08/14/90)

In article <1476daiyingshi@yvax.byu.edu>, daiyingshi@yvax.byu.edu writes...
>        I found there is a manual.dvi   in /text/tex/pictex/pictex.tar.Z
>However, after I ftped this tar.z file, uncompressed it and untared it, I found
>the manual exists only in .dvi form. I can only get four pages from our talaris
>printer then I was told xxxx.tfm not found. When I tried to view this .dvi
>file, the view program dumped me out. That's really strange.

Even stranger is that the file is there at all. The DVI file was
not meant to be distributed (where did you find this file? that
file really should be removed).

You can purchase the PiCTeX manual from the TeX Users Group for
$35.

TeX Users Group
P.O. Box 9506
Providence, RI 02940
401-751-7760
tug@math.ams.com

-dh

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