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From: davidli@simvax.labmed.umn.edu
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Subject: Re: TeX/LaTeX info sent to atari.archive
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Date: 4 Jan 91 11:57:56 GMT
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In article <8841628@arium.stgt.sub.org>, be@arium.stgt.sub.org (Bernd Ebach) writes:
>> ESSENTIAL.TEX	-	"Essential LaTeX".  Contains VERY basic information.

> And how am I supposed to read those...
> without having installed TEX allready?

Repeat after me:

"TeX and LaTeX source files (with the .tex file extender) are ASCII files."

"TeX and LaTex device files (with the .dvi file extender) are BINARY files."

"I can read TeX and LaTeX source files with any text editor (or even the SHOW
option from the desktop).  There is no reason to complain about TeX and LaTeX
source files being unreadable."

[Perhaps after repeating this mantra a hundred times it'll get through to
people....]

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David Paschall-Zimbel		davidli@simvax.labmed.umn.edu