Path: utzoo!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!hellgate.utah.edu!caen!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!think.com!hsdndev!husc6!zariski!zeleny From: zeleny@zariski.harvard.edu (Michael zeleny) Newsgroups: comp.text.tex Subject: Re: Help to Install Tex on PC Message-ID: <5886@husc6.harvard.edu> Date: 5 Mar 91 20:12:22 GMT References: <1991Feb27.224933.1@uavax0.ccit.arizona.edu> Sender: news@husc6.harvard.edu Distribution: world,local Organization: Harvard University Dept. of Mathematics Lines: 30 In article <1991Feb27.224933.1@uavax0.ccit.arizona.edu> ghani@uavax0.ccit.arizona.edu writes: > > Hi, Fellow Netters: > > I wrote my dissertation using TeX on a Vax Machine. Now I would like > to use TeX on a 386sx Laptop. I transfered sbtex30 files from a ftp > site and tried to extract some of the files following the procedure > described in readme.tex file. When I tried to extract the files using > "zoo e// filename.zoo", computer just sits there and nothing happens. > > Can somebody explain the procedure in detail? Any help will be greatly > appreciated. > > Thanks > Ghani Greetings, Does anyone know the FTP site for the public domain version of TeX suitable for a 386sx laptop (GRiDCASE 1550sx)? I am mostly a UNIX kind of guy, so any relevant info would be greatly appreciated. Please respond to zeleny@zariski.harvard.edu, or zeleny@math.harvard.edu; for some points of origin, only one of the above works. Cheers, Michael