Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!ginosko!gem.mps.ohio-state.edu!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!ucbvax!CAD.USNA.MIL!dfr From: dfr@CAD.USNA.MIL ("David F. Rogers") Newsgroups: comp.sys.sgi Subject: TeX distribution for the SGI Message-ID: <8907250752.aa26672@CAD.USNA.MIL> Date: 25 Jul 89 11:52:29 GMT Sender: daemon@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU Organization: The Internet Lines: 124 G'day, The first release of TeX for the SGI Iris 4D series is ready for distribution. This has been used at RMIT (Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology) for some months and has worked reasonably well. There should be another release later this year with an improved previewer and any improvements/fixes that we make in reponse to comments of other TeX users on the 4D series. There are a number of improvements in the pipeline, including better support for pictures in a postscript output file, HP laserjet (and plus) output as well as a much better previewer. There isn't a good local guide as there should be. This will be fixed in the next release. --- Here is a brief description of the programs useful to most TeX users: In /usr/local/bin: tex - Native TeX v2.93 latex - LaTeX v2.09 bigtex - Increased size complex documents/macros -- Common TeX v2.9 biglatex - Increased size complex documents/macros -- Common TeX v2.9 tgrind - convert a source file into TeX and optionally (pretty) print it In /usr/local/tex/bin: initex - normal initex -- As described in the TeXbook virtex - normal virtex) -- As described in the TeXbook biginitex - initex enlarged for those extra big jobs (say picTeX) bigvirtex - initex enlarged for those extra big jobs (say picTeX) bibtex - BibTeX as documented in the LaTeX book. texsgi - version 0.5 of the Iris previewer dvi2ps - a dvi -> postscript converter (port of tex82/TeXdevices/mitdrivers/dvi2ps) dvi2tty - a (very) poor man's previewer dvitype - information about a dvi file tr2tex - convert a troff document to LaTeX --- You can send comments etc to Mike Gigante Applied Computer Graphics Lab Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology 124 Latrobe Street, Melbourne, Australia 3001 +61 3 660 2935 Email: mg@cidam.oz.au or to Prof. David F. Rogers Aerospace Engineering Dept. U.S. Naval Academy Annapolis, MD 21402, USA (301) 267 3283/4/5 Email: dfr@usna.navy.mil who has offered to act as the US distribution point. email comments should be sent to both Mike Gigante and Dave Rogers. Distribution: Binaries are located on vgr.brl.mil (192.5.23.6) at BRL in directory /usr/spool/ftp/info-iris in file texbin.tar.Z and may be obtained by anonymous ftp. The compressed tar file is approximately 5.8 megabytes! Dave Rogers will provide a distribution (US & Canada only) on SGI hi-density cartridge tapes if you ABSOLUTELY cannot ftp them. To get these tapes send three (3) 3M DC600A 600 ft, 12,500 ftpi hi-density cartridge tapes to him at the above address. Mike Gigante will provide a similar service for the rest of the world. To install the distribution ftp file: zcat texbin.tar.Z | tar xvf - cartridge tape: tar xv Place the following in your path: /usr/local/bin and /usr/local/tex/bin and you are ready to go. A README file is in /usr/local/tex/README. !!!!!!!!!!!!! NOTE !!!!!!!!!!!!! Absolute path names were used to simplify our distribution task. The compressed tar file will expand into an estimated 15-18 megabytes in /usr. MAKE SURE YOU HAVE ENOUGH DISC SPACE. !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! You will need to set the following environment variables to use dvi2tty, it is suggested that you put this in /etc/cshrc (/etc/profile) so that everyone gets it by default.. setenv DVI2TTY "" (or for Bourne shell users DVI2TTY=""; export DVI2TTY) It is recommended that you use the -q option for the present implementation of the texsgi previewer. Dave Rogers Mike Gigante 7/24/89