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From: chris@mimsy.umd.edu (Chris Torek)
Newsgroups: comp.text.tex
Subject: Re: TUG and TeX...
Message-ID: <26423@mimsy.umd.edu>
Date: 7 Sep 90 02:09:21 GMT
References: <9009052355.AA18416@lilac.berkeley.edu>
Organization: U of Maryland, Dept. of Computer Science, Coll. Pk., MD 20742
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In article <9009052355.AA18416@lilac.berkeley.edu> DLV@CUNYVMS1.BITNET writes:
>OK, I'll byte. :) Here's a constructive suggestion: print a directory
>of known free and low-cost TeX's for all systems (not just MS-DOS) in
>every issue of TUGBoat.

This would take a good deal of space, but might be worthwhile.  (Note
that the amount of space goes up almost exponentially with the usefulness
of the list: a simple list of `these exist' is very short, a list of
`these exist and here is how you get them' is fairly long, and a list of
`these exist, are known to work with these systems, have been rated as
good/bad/ugly by {list of people}; here is how you get them' is very
long and takes a great deal of effort to maintain.

More to the point, however, is the fact that TUG cannot print an article
that no one will write!  If *you* want it printed, *you* write it ... that
is the rule in this domain.
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