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From: joel@techunix.BITNET (Yossi (Joel) Hoffman)
Newsgroups: comp.text.tex
Subject: TeX, MF, etc. for MS-DOS
Summary: Which should I get.  Where do I get it
Keywords: MS-DOS, PC, IBM, TeX
Message-ID: <9685@discus.technion.ac.il>
Date: 30 May 90 11:16:23 GMT
Sender: daemon@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU
Reply-To: joel%techunix.bitnet@jade.berkeley.edu (Yossi (Joel) Hoffman)
Organization: Technion, Israel Inst. Tech., Haifa Israel
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Last week I finally got and installed a copy of DOSTEX, which is
certainly on the large size, but seems to work.  But I've only had
minimal success with their dvieps driver for the Epson.  It won't even
translate sample.dvi!  Is there a better version available?  Is DOSTEX
the best TeX out?  I don't really want to re-install a new version of
TeX, but I will if there's something considerably better.

Second:  Is there a copy of MF for MS-DOS?  I need something already
compiled.  How much space does it take up?  Where would I get it?
Considering it's (probably very large) size, I'd be willing to pay
someone to send me 3.5" disks.

Third:  (this is the hard one)  There's a patch to TeX to make it into
TeX-XeT, a version of TeX which supports bi-directional typesetting
(particularly, Hebrew).  Has anyone ported THAT to MS-DOS?

Any help will be greatly appreciated.  Please reply by e-mail.  And
no, I don't have ftp. :-(

Thanks in advance.

-Joel
(joel@techunix.technion.ac.il -or- joel@techunix.BITNET)
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