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From: dhosek@euler.claremont.edu (Don Hosek)
Newsgroups: comp.text.tex
Subject: Re: TeX under VMS 5.4
Message-ID: <1991Mar27.034927.1@euler.claremont.edu>
Date: 27 Mar 91 11:49:27 GMT
References: <1991Mar26.164025.73@skyler.mavd.honeywell.com>
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In article <1991Mar26.164025.73@skyler.mavd.honeywell.com>, djbailey@skyler.mavd.honeywell.com writes:
> We are upgrading our VAX system to VMS 5.4. I have been asked to find out 
> if there are any known problems with TeX or LaTeX under VMS 5.4. I am 
> very much a TeX novice and don't have time to run any tests myself.
 
> We have TeX82 from Arbortext Inc.

Don't know about the Arbortext implementation but the public
domain version (available from DECUS, Stanford,
ymir.claremont.edu and other locations) works fine under 5.4;
unless AT does something weird, theirs would presumably also run
fine.

-dh

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