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From: kthompso@ptolemy.arc.nasa.gov (Kevin Thompson)
Newsgroups: comp.text.tex
Subject: Re: Installing TeX on Suns
Summary: grrrrrr
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Date: 28 Aug 90 17:55:01 GMT
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In article <8208@jarthur.Claremont.EDU> dhosek@sif.claremont.edu writes:
>In article <blah>, ciamac@sci.ccny.cuny.edu (Ciamac Moallemi) writes...
>>I do not want to use the unix TeX
>>distribution, as it is outdated (2.95 versus the curent 3.0).  
>
>Reason number 6,432 for ordering the TeX tape from University of
>Washington.
>
>It **IS** up to date. The tape you get will have TeX 3.0, MF 2.0
>and the most recent copies of all utilities and auxiliary files.
>
>For more information about the Unix TeX distribution, contact
>Elizabeth Tachikawa, elizabet@max.acs.washington.edu (not only
>can she tell you how to get the tape, once you have it, she'll be
>more than happy to help you get it running).

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Look, I *really* appreciate what the folks at washington (and FSF, and
elsewhere) are doing, and would love to do my best to support them.  But this
is not the first time a message like this has appeared -- suggesting it's
just plain trivial to get a check (no matter how small) cut to order a tape.
For those of us in huge organizations (read: Your Government, Inc.), the
amount of effort involved in generating the $150 (?)  check would cost us far
more than the actual cost.  I know this isn't anyone's fault per se, but just
realize that some folks have very good reason to use ftp to acquire their
software.

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So please, if someone could post a nice, clean summary of making unix tex 3.0
with what *is* available from labrea and elsewhere, that would be much more
appreciated.  Sorry to offend anyone at washington, I'm sure the $150 goes
to good use.

We return now to our regularly-scheduled programming.

Kevin Thompson
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kthompso@ptolemy.arc.nasa.gov     NASA-Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, CA