Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!usc!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!van-bc!ubc-cs!uw-beaver!zephyr.ens.tek.com!tektronix!percy!m2xenix!quagga!hippo!spel From: spel@hippo.ru.ac.za (Dr. Eberhard W. Lisse) Newsgroups: comp.text.tex Subject: Re: Big-PCTex 386 Message-ID: Date: 18 May 91 15:23:12 GMT References: <1991May17.063522.984@images.cs.und.ac.za> <1991May17.135331.315@biivax.dp.beckman.com> Sender: usenet@quagga.ru.ac.za (Rhodes University NNTP server) Organization: Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa Lines: 52 In <1991May17.135331.315@biivax.dp.beckman.com> dahosek@biivax.dp.beckman.com writes: >In article <1991May17.063522.984@images.cs.und.ac.za>, leach@images.cs.und.ac.za writes: > >> I currently have PCTex V3.0. In South Africa, no computer supplier >> has heard of TeX. I have a 486-25Mhz with 16MB RAM running DOS 4.01. >> I need Big-PcTeX 386. Where can I get it? > >> Is this the best TeX package for my system? >If you need big TeX have a PC configured like the one indicated >above and are willing to part with money, Big PCTeX386 is most >likely the best choice for you. The field for big TeX for the PC >under DOS consists of > big emTeX(8088 and 286 versions... 386 version in beta test) > big PCTeX/386 >big PCTeX ran roughly 3.5 times faster than big emTeX, but has a >bug prohibitting 8-bit input (sources have indicated that this >will be fixed real soon now). >Personal TeX can be contacted at > Personal TeX Inc. > 12 Madrona Ave. > Mill Valley, CA 94941 > 415-388-8853 > pti@well.sf.ca.us >Since you are not connected directly to the internet, electronic >retrieval of emTeX would probably not be a good idea although I >believe that Dr. Eberhard Lisse (did I get that right?) who is >also in your part of the continent has a copy. Otherwise, it is >available on floppy disks from the TeX Users Group (they also are >able to supply commercial TeX software) Indeed, not only have I got a copy but also it is available for FTP in the UNINET (RSA only) at ucthpx.uct.ac.ZA. I tried previously to contact him at Natal but somehow, it didn't work and I forgot (as usual :-)-O) to follow up on this. I will mail this note to him again and if I can't get through, I will mail to the system manager at Natal to connect us. regards, el -- Dr. Eberhard W. Lisse (spel@hippo.ru.ac.ZA) Katatura State Hospital (formerly extel@quagga.ru.ac.za) Private Bag 13215 (Real Soon Now ... el@lisse.NA) Windhoek, Namibia (no FTP yet. [This is Africa :-)-O])