Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!ames!vsi1!zorch!xanthian From: xanthian@zorch.SF-Bay.ORG (Kent Paul Dolan) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga Subject: Re: AmigaTeX and disk space Message-ID: <1990Jun12.103022.646@zorch.SF-Bay.ORG> Date: 12 Jun 90 10:30:22 GMT References: <9006112026.AA00442@human-torch.lockheed.com> Organization: SF Bay Public-Access Unix Lines: 24 In article <9006112026.AA00442@human-torch.lockheed.com> kosma%human-torch@STC.LOCKHEED.COM (Monty Kosma) writes: >{is tom out there??} >quick question: I'm thinking about finally getting AmigaTeX now that I'm >leaving behind the systems at Lockheed and will have to be doing more >stuff at home (once I buy a printer). How much hard disk space do I need? >Hopefully I can get another one cheaply if I need to... > >monty >kosma@human-torch.lasc-research.lockheed.com Not having a hard disk, I can't answer exactly, but the distribution I bought (AmigaTEX, LaTeX, BibTeX, METAFONT, Epson/NECC Printer driver) occupies 18 AmigaDOS floppies, which if they're all full is just under 16 Meg if you want it all online at once. In addition, you might want that much space again to do rasterized characters. Contrarywise, since most of that is fonts, you could get by with about 5 meg to start, just rasterizing the fonts you need from floppies. Kent, the man from xanth. -- Kent is back. What more could you want. -- Richard Sexton