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From: wwm@wa8tzg.mi.org (Bill Meahan)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.3b1
Subject: Re: TeX on the 3b1
Keywords: TeX
Message-ID: <1991Apr24.215732.916@wa8tzg.mi.org>
Date: 24 Apr 91 21:57:32 GMT
References: <92@morwyn.UUCP> <15258@helios.TAMU.EDU>
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In article <15258@helios.TAMU.EDU> dlb5404@tamuts.tamu.edu (Daryl Biberdorf) writes:
>In article <92@morwyn.UUCP> forrie@morwyn.UUCP (Forrie Aldrich) writes:
>>
>>I have gotten the files from OSU-CIS and TeX version 3.0 binaries from
>>elsewhere... now I'm stuck, and would appreciate it if someone could tell
>>me a little more about TeX, what it does, and how to make it work.
>
>TeX is a big program created by Donald Knuth at Stanford.  It's basically
>a computer typesetter that does *real* typesetting.
>
>For more information (there's a lot), check out the TeXbook by
>Knuth or the LaTeX book by Leslie Lamport.  Both are published by
>Addison Wesley.  Btw, LaTeX is a bunch of macros that sit on top of
>TeX that actually make it usable (I don't like plain TeX much...but
>some people will vehemently disagree).  Also, TeX is pronounced 'tech',
>not 'tecks'.
>
>--Daryl Biberdorf,  dlb5404@tamuts.tamu.edu
>  Texas A&M University

Much more information can be obtained from the comp.text.tex newsgroup.

BTW, there exists a version of TeX 3.1 for the 3B1 (I'm using it).
I got binaries from a private party whom I will NOT identify (no legal
problems - I just don't want his mailbox overflowing :-)

Presumably SOMEONE out there can make it widely available.  (And, no, I
can't put it on OSU because my only connection with the outside world is
by 2400-baud UUCP and the compressed cpio archive takes up 10 floppies).
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