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From: scott@prism.gatech.EDU (Scott Holt)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.aix
Subject: Re: TeX for RS/6000
Message-ID: <24661@hydra.gatech.EDU>
Date: 19 Mar 91 18:51:23 GMT
References: <1991Mar19.171405.4614@rs6000.cmp.ilstu.edu>
Organization: Georgia Institute of Technology
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In article <1991Mar19.171405.4614@rs6000.cmp.ilstu.edu> ejbehr@rs6000.cmp.ilstu.edu (Eric Behr) writes:
>Hi; this was probably discussed, but I subscribed only recently.
>Is there a publicly available port of plain TeX which would run on the
>RS/6000 530? If not, what about commercial implementations, if any?
>Thanks a lot. Please reply by mail - I can summarize if there's interest.

The UNIX TeX distribution from the University of Washington is a good
starting place. I started with that and have installed TeX on our
6000s - though I have not yet verified that it passes the trip-test.
Most of the changes I needed to make were pulled from a plain TeX
distribution on the science.utah.edu server. The UWash stuff is
on uunet.uu.net and a number of other servers, you can also get it
from UWash on tape for a fee. I found the UWash stuff easier to 
install than the stuff on science.utah.edu, but you should probably
look at both in order to figure out what files need changing.

- Scott
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