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From: andreess@mrlaxs.mrl.uiuc.edu (Marc Andreessen)
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Subject: Re: TeX viewer for RS/6000?
Keywords: TeX , rendering
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Date: 19 Mar 91 22:10:01 GMT
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In article <1991Mar19.181658.27654@ibmpa.awdpa.ibm.com> jsalter@slo.awdpa.ibm.com (Jim Salter) writes:
>In article <1991Mar19.085319.28330@agate.berkeley.edu> wostner@garnet.berkeley.edu (Ulf Wostner) writes:
>>Is there a TeX viewer for the RS/6000?
>
>Yes, its available with the "TeX and Metafont for AIX Version 3 on the
>IBM RISC System/6000" package.  (This may be an RPQ, rather than an LPP.)

Yeesh, isn't that a fairly expensive answer to a fairly simple request?
A damn fine TeX previewer called xdvi is available from any number of FTP
sites (including export.lcs.mit.edu, in contrib) and works absolutely
great on the RS/6000.

Marc

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