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From: ajayshah@alhena.usc.edu (Ajay Shah)
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Subject: Re: What is best TeX for an MS-DOS preview system?
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Date: 27 Apr 91 22:42:10 GMT
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In article <1991Apr27.185455.15185@msuinfo.cl.msu.edu> lees@cps.msu.edu (John Lees) writes:
>What is the best TeX to use on an MS-DOS PC to test and preview
>material that is to be uploaded to a UNIX system for printing on
>a laser printer? (The PC is an 8mhz 80286/80287, 1mb available EMS,
>40mb disk, Hercules monochrome graphics system.)
>
>Rough draft printout on a 9-pin dot matrix printer (Star NX-1001,
>Epson LX-850 compatible) may be useful occasionally.

Without a doubt: EmTeX.  It's fast, it's debugged, and it's free!
The full set of EmTeX files are found in terminator.cc.umich.edu
in msdos/tex/emtex.  

A minimal ready-to-use TeX+LaTeX+preview file system may be found in

	pub/emtex-fax
on
	arisia.parc.xerox.com

It's optimised to use as little disk space as possible.

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