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From: ilan343@violet.berkeley.edu (Geraldo Veiga)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.sysv386
Subject: Unix/386 TeX binaries
Summary: ftp site
Keywords: TeX
Message-ID: <1991Feb15.170008.3124@agate.berkeley.edu>
Date: 15 Feb 91 17:00:08 GMT
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Is there any interest in a ftp'able binary distribution of TeX for
Unix/386 systems?

I can make mine available through one of the local ftp sites.

I posted a similar message to comp.text.tex, but only got a couple of
responses.  Maybe this is a better forum for potential "customers"
for such package.  After all, readers of text.tex are already TeX
users.

The idea would be to offer a self contained collection of TeX +
Metafont binaries ( from the latest web2c compiled with gcc) and
formated manual pages.  This was generated under ISC 2.2.  I am
assuming the binaries should run unchanged on the other SysV 3.2
implementations.

In addition the binaries, I would include the essential TeX, LaTeX and
Metafont input files, and a full working system could be built.
I don't have X-Windows in my machine yet, so I'd need contributions (
xdvi, texx X-metafont) on the X side.

Any Suggestions?