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From: elg@elgamy.RAIDERNET.COM (Eric Lee Green)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.advocacy
Subject: Re: AmigaUNIX applications
Message-ID: <00672899398@elgamy.RAIDERNET.COM>
Date: 29 Apr 91 04:29:58 GMT
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From article <16dGfii.1@cs.psu.edu>, by melling@cs.psu.edu (Michael D Mellinger):
> In article <1991Apr24.132313.13844@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu> cs326ag@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu (Loren J. Rittle) writes:
>       Radical Eye Software has also been hard at work on
>    a port of TeX to Amiga Unix!  This software is now avail-
>    able at $300; it can be supplied on either floppy disks or a
>
> I don't really want to start a flame war is this group, but isn't this
> the same version of TeX that you get free with the NeXT?

Not unless the version of TeX with the NeXT has a nice "X" previewer,
ability to include Amiga IFF images, a bunch of drivers for common Amiga
printers...

I'd probably use a PD TeX under Unix, though. Most of the stuff in AmigaTeX
deals with AmigaDOS-specific stuff (like Amiga IFF) that I wouldn't have
much use for under Unix.

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