john@hq.hq.af.mil (John.L.Ryan) (07/13/90)
Hi folks, I just bought a used Apollo DN 320 ( no hissing it was CHEAP! )
and I want to run TeX on it. So I went to labrea.stanford.edu and got
tex82.tar.Z.a[a-q] un-tar'ed an un-copress'ed it when I found the note
to Apollo owners in README.APOLLO that a hacked version for
DOMAIN IX 9.7 running Berkeley 4.2
was available with a dviapollo program to preview dvi files. Great I
said that is just my system exactly! Wow isn't the internet great.
The instructions said 1) get the unix tape from june.cs.washington.edu.
So I anonymous ftp there last night and to my horor couldn't find
makefiles, READMEs or anything, not even the dviapollo stuff. Hmmm...
So now I want to know where a modified tex82 can be gotten (of course
I would settle for a tex3.0 but probably noone ports to these ancient
Apollos anymore :-( ). Also tapes won't help much as I have 8" floppies
( No Smirking out there!!! ). Obviously an ftp site would be best but
if necessary I have access to qic 150 format Sun compatible tape drives
and can suck things off that machine serially. Oh, also this needs to
be cheap enough that a starving grad student in physics can afford --
i.e. I can spend late night porting software but cant part with $$.
Thanks in advance.
John Ryan john@hq.af.mil (w)202-695-0262 (h)202-547-2007
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