Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!samsung!uunet!mcsun!inria!seti!minos!jourdan From: jourdan@minos.inria.fr (Martin Jourdan) Newsgroups: comp.text.tex Subject: Re: Where does one find tpic (VMS) Message-ID: <1553@seti.inria.fr> Date: 21 Aug 90 11:41:09 GMT References: <4226@cica.cica.indiana.edu> Sender: news@seti.inria.fr Reply-To: jourdan@minos.inria.fr Organization: INRIA Lines: 15 Tpic is not freely distributed since it includes large chunks of source code from the original "pic" by AT&T. Hence, to get tpic you first need a license from AT&T for the source code of pic; then you contact Tim Morgan (morgan@ics.uci.edu) to have the rest. Another possibility is to get "gpic", the GNU clone of pic which has a TeX mode and produces tpic \specials. Gpic is part of groff (GNU reimplementation of nroff, troff and their preprocessors). Groff is available by anonymous FTP from prep.ai.mit.edu, in directory pub/gnu. The bad news is that groff is written in C++... In addition, I don't know anything of the compatibility of tpic and gpic. I hope this helps. Martin Jourdan , INRIA, Rocquencourt, France.