Path: utzoo!utgpu!watserv1!watmath!att!rutgers!cs.utexas.edu!uwm.edu!uwvax!persoft!dag From: dag@persoft.com (Daniel A. Glasser) Newsgroups: comp.text.tex Subject: Re: Installing TeX on Suns Message-ID: <1990Aug31.190338.20008@persoft.com> Date: 31 Aug 90 19:03:38 GMT References: <8208@jarthur.Claremont.EDU> <7243@ptolemy.arc.nasa.gov> Organization: Persoft, Inc. Lines: 41 In article <7243@ptolemy.arc.nasa.gov> kthompso@ptolemy.arc.nasa.gov (Kevin Thompson) writes: >In article <8208@jarthur.Claremont.EDU> dhosek@sif.claremont.edu writes: >>In article , 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distribution, as it is outdated (2.95 versus the curent 3.0).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. >\begin{miniflame} > 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. >\end{miniflame} >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. There is another reason that some of us cannot just order the tape. We don't have either the tape drives or storage capacity for the distribution! On many of the small 386 based machines (like persoft.com), there is a total of between 100 and 150 MB of disk space and no tape drive. Since persoft.com has no direct Internet connection, my only choice is to connect to a guest account on a machine which does have Internet access, pull across one file at a time, and kermit it at 2400 baud to a 386 AT clone, at home, pack the files onto DOS disks, carry the disks into work, copy the files to the Unix machine, and hope that I got the right ones. I've not actually started this process yet. I've been trying to determine what files I actually need. I've got lots of pk fonts (for TeX 2.x) stored for my Atari ST (also at home) so I'm hoping that I don't have to fetch EVERYTHING across the net/phone-connection. If the University of Washington offered a distribution on 5.25" 1.2Mb SysV style floppies which was geared to the SysV/386 crowd, they would get an order from me today. -- Daniel A. Glasser | Persoft, Inc. | dag@persoft.com "Their brains were small, and they died."