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From: chris@mimsy.UUCP (Chris Torek)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: Where does TeX live?
Message-ID: <18542@mimsy.UUCP>
Date: 14 Jul 89 05:06:37 GMT
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In article <8638@attctc.DALLAS.TX.US> nasa@attctc.DALLAS.TX.US
(Daniel Poirot) asks:
>Where does TeX live?  We have MicroTeX on the PC in the lab and would like
>it on the big VAX.  I have found several documents that talk about TeX but
>none that say where an archive site is located.

Unix-specific (aha, proper newsgroup! :-) ) ports of TeX are available
for a tape handling fee from the University of Washington.  The current
version of TeX is 2.9<something> and compilation is by converting the
Pascal output from Tangle into C code; this process is considerably more
portable than the original Pascal-compilation sequence.

According to `finger':
	[cs.washington.edu]
	Login name: mackay    			In real life: Pierre MacKay
	...
	For UnixTeX questions, call (206) 543-6259
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In-Real-Life: Chris Torek, Univ of MD Comp Sci Dept (+1 301 454 7163)
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