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From: allred@ut-emx.UUCP (Kevin L. Allred)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc,comp.text
Subject: Re: DOSTEX HELP! Please
Summary: SBTEX and DVIVGA
Message-ID: <15052@ut-emx.UUCP>
Date: 10 Jul 89 17:03:50 GMT
References: <7685@cs.Buffalo.EDU>
Organization: UT-Austin, Dept. of Chem. Engr
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In article <7685@cs.Buffalo.EDU>, ugleung@cs.Buffalo.EDU (Leung Lee) writes:
> case all all.  I need a lot of help from you all, I am currently
> trying to run DOSTEX and SBTEX.  For DOSTEX, I can't get it to compile
> since the maximum stack size is 60, which I exceeded with less than a
> page of latex file.  It said something such as "if you absolutely need
> more capacity, you can ask wizard to enlarge me."  Now I did a text

SBTeX is probably the best choice, right now, for PC based TeXing.  I
heard reported that SBTeX is 3 or more times faster than DOSTeX.  To
use LaTeX with SBTeX, use the LaTeX files (lplain.tex, lfonts.tex, and
latex.tex) and the SBTeX version of INITEX to make the lplain.fmt
file.  You need to make sure that you do this on a PC with 640K and a
minimum of RAM resident options, otherwise you will get out of memory
errors.  You will also need all the .tfm files used by LaTeX.
Whenever you run LaTeX make sure you have as close to 640K free as
possible or you may run out of memory during processing.

DVIVGA is the only PD previewer I have found that will let you preview
LaTeX files, but to use it you need EGA or VGA graphics, a fast
computer (286 or 386 unless you're very patient), and a fast hard with
about 5 megs free for fonts.  DVIVGA is available on SIMTEL20 in 9 big
archives.

If anyone has found a better PD implamentation of TeX and/or
previewer, please post info to the net about where to get it.


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	Kevin Allred
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	allred@ut-emx.UUCP