Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!wuarchive!mit-eddie!bloom-beacon!eru!hagbard!sunic!mcsun!ukc!icdoc!sot-ecs!spqr From: spqr@ecs.soton.ac.uk (Sebastian Rahtz) Newsgroups: comp.text.tex Subject: Re: Where does one find tpic (VMS) Message-ID: Date: 24 Aug 90 09:12:59 GMT References: <4226@cica.cica.indiana.edu> Sender: spqr@ecs.soton.ac.uk Organization: Southampton University Computer Science Lines: 25 In-reply-to: templon@venus.iucf.indiana.edu's message of 20 Aug 90 22:06:19 GMT In article <4226@cica.cica.indiana.edu> templon@venus.iucf.indiana.edu (Jeffrey Templon) writes: so here goes: where do I find (by anon ftp or by e-mail request) the tpic program (as in tpic specials)? The EEPIC manual mentions this you dont. you have to send Tim Morgan a copy of your AT&T DWB license, and he tells you how to get tpic - it contains AT&T code an alternative is gpic, part of groff. this is a free replacement for troff, which you can get from prep.ai.mit.edu pub/gnu/groff-0.4.tar.Z (I think thats the right file name). trouble is, its in C++, so if you don't have a C++ compiler you are up the creek. Also I would like to know where to find some documentation on the program, if it is not included in the distribution. you buy any book on text-processing with Unix tools that includes a description of `pic' - tpic, gpic and pic are all the same, as regards input language (tho tpic is missing a few things added to pic and thence gpic) s -- Sebastian Rahtz S.Rahtz@uk.ac.soton.ecs (JANET) Computer Science S.Rahtz@ecs.soton.ac.uk (Bitnet) Southampton S09 5NH, UK S.Rahtz@sot-ecs.uucp (uucp)