Path: utzoo!mnetor!tmsoft!torsqnt!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!clyde.concordia.ca!thunder.mcrcim.mcgill.edu!snorkelwacker.mit.edu!apple!portal!cup.portal.com!Yonderboy From: Yonderboy@cup.portal.com (Christopher Lee Russell) Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st Subject: Re: uploaded to atari.archive Message-ID: <37238@cup.portal.com> Date: 26 Dec 90 02:52:15 GMT References: <1990Dec18.144413.26174@chinet.chi.il.us> <1990Dec19.164207.21144@uvm.edu> Organization: The Portal System (TM) Lines: 6 I'm in the same boat as the other posters in this thread.. I have am not sure what the Showdvi and Metafont programs are... There are tons of support files and I don't know what all of them are.. I have heard of TeX and have an idea of what it is and am very interested.. Could somebody leave a breif description (or better yet a long (-: description) of some of this stuff? ........yonderboy@cup.portal.com