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Subject: RE:Where is TEX?
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Date: 6 Dec 89 14:51:21 GMT
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>2FHDDOWEL@kuhub.cc.ukans.edu (John A. Thywissen) writes:
> Where can one FTP Amiga TeX, METAFONT, LaTeX, and WEB from?
While AmigaTeX, the program is a copyrighted, for-sale work, I believe
that LaTeX in and of itself is a copyrighted, but free set of macros
written in TeX in which case you would merely have to get a hold of any
distribution of the LaTeX package to have LaTeX.

Am I right in assuming this?---Can somebody else out there in net.land
comfirm or deny?
I'm making this assumption based on the fact that every version of TeX
I've ever seen for workstations or > was provided free+cost of media.
Also, the various disclaimers and READMEs tend to lend to this idea.

While we're on the subject of AmigaTeX, I'll repost a question that I asked
a while back but got no answers to..
Could somebody please, please, PLEASE! tell me where 'plain.fmt' goes?
I have the demo disk, but everytime I try to TeX something, TeX panics and
complains 'I can't find the plain.fmt file!'.
I've tried stuffing it in TEX: TEX:inputs TEX:formats TEX:macros,
everything I can think of.
I am trying to run it off a hard drive and have the following ASSIGN in my
Startup-Sequence:
ASSIGN TEX: dh0:TeX

If somebody out there is successfully using the demo from fishdisk 150
or has the full blown thing running, could you please send me a list of
all the ASSIGNS you do or what exactly you did to get it running.

There were no dox with my copy of the demo version. I've only been able to
get this far 'cause I brought up TeX on an Apollo this summer.
Thanks muchly
---Steve
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Stephen Okay
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