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From: bvandepe@sirius.ucs.adelaide.edu.au.ua.oz (Commander Straker)
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Subject: Re: latex for pc?
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Date: 18 Feb 91 00:26:52 GMT
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From article <12925@ccncsu.ColoState.EDU>, by millerje@holst.cs.colostate.edu (jeffrey scott miller):
> Does anyone know where I can find LaTeX (not TeX) implemented for MSDOS?
> I looked on a simtel mirror and all they had was sbtex, which is a tex clone,
> not latex.  I would prefer the implementation to have page preview, but that
> isn't absolutely necessary.
> 
I'm not sure where you can find it in the states, but I know where a copy is
here in Australia. It is a latex implementation, and the files include a 
dvi viewer. ( This was for hercules and vga graphics cards last time I looked
and did not support ega. )

Anyway, the site is:
   sirius.ucs.adelaide.edu.au
using the usual anonymous ftp.

The files are in:
   PC/PC-NFS/tex/

There is a fair amount of stuff there, so you'll want to watch the time zones
to keep in good with the sys-op. When you log in the machine gives you its
local time, so you needent have a calculator nearby :-)

BTW, IMHO, this feature should be implemented on all ftp servers so
that us users know if we are doing the right thing. Some servers do not even
give their offset from GMT, and I don't know where some of the machines are
just from their domain names.

Anyway, enjoy.

> thanks.
Your welcome.

Brenton Vandepeer, University of Adelaide, South Australia.

email: bvandepe@physics.adelaide.edu.au