Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP
Posting-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site uw-june
Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!akgua!sdcsvax!sdcrdcf!hplabs!hao!seismo!cmcl2!floyd!vax135!cornell!uw-beaver!uw-june!furuta
From: furuta@uw-june (Richard Furuta)
Newsgroups: net.text
Subject: Re: TeX availability
Message-ID: <1511@uw-june>
Date: Sat, 26-May-84 22:09:05 EDT
Article-I.D.: uw-june.1511
Posted: Sat May 26 22:09:05 1984
Date-Received: Fri, 1-Jun-84 02:19:52 EDT
References: <7327@gatech.UUCP> <7090@umcp-cs.UUCP>
Organization: U. Washington, Computer Sci
Lines: 92

Recently I've been getting a number of queries relating to the recent
messages about TeX for Unix.

At the bottom of this message is our general note about obtaining TeX for
Vaxen running 4.1 and 4.2 bsd.  Please note that the price and requirements
are the same whether or not you are a university.  We don't have anything
available for other Vax versions of Unix.  We don't have anything that runs
on PDP-11s.  Textset in Ann Arbor, Michigan has a version of TeX for the Sun
terminal and I hear rumors that there is one for the Apollo.

I don't think there is a TeX for the Cyber available yet.  Some people in
Sweden are the primary contacts for this.  There were some problem with
getting the previous version of TeX running on the Cyber because of the
Pascal.

I think that there is a driver available for the Xerox 9700 under Unix.  If
you are interested in this, please contact me directly and I'll point you at
my source.

Well, in any case, here is the general information:

Thanks for your inquiry about TeX82.  The version of TeX82 we have runs
under Berkeley Unix, versions 4.1 and 4.2.  We understand that it also runs
under 4.1c without some difficulty.  The tape we send out includes the TeX82
sources and change files, the WEB system sources and change files, fonts for
devices at 200 pixels/inch and 240 pixels/inch, a partial set of fonts for
300 pixel/inch and 480 pixel/inch devices, DVI device translators for the
Symbolics Laser Printer, the Imagen Laser Printer, and the Versatec
printer/plotter, and various other programs and macro packages (in
particular, a prerelease of the LaTeX macro package and the first release of
the AmSTeX macro package).  The tape is written at 1600 bpi in tar format.
It currently is about 25 megabytes long but since most of this is taken up
by the fonts, most sites can run TeX using much less disk space.  I would
guess that a site with only one device could run with perhaps 5 to 10
megabytes of disk---less if the sources also were not kept on line.

In order to get the tape, send me a check for $50 made to the University of
Washington plus a copy of your 4.1 or 4.2 bsd source license (the tape
includes a modified version of Berkeley's pc compiler, hence the requirement
for the 4.1 or 4.2 license).  My address is:

	Richard Furuta
	Department of Computer Science, FR-35
	University of Washington
	Seattle, WA  98195

The amount we ask for the tape is intended to just recover our costs (we are
prohibited from making any kind of profit by University regulations).
Consequently, we would appreciate it if foreign sites could increase the
amount of their check as appropriate to pay the added postal costs necessary
for mailing the tape ($60 U.S. seems about right).  Since we are not a
service organization, we cannot officially guarantee that the material on the
tape will run on your computer or output device and cannot guarantee any
maintenance.  However, it has been our experience that only a very few
problems have been reported by sites trying to get TeX to run.  We also
expect that Stanford will continue to fix bugs in TeX for at least the
forseeable future.

Please note that it is not necessary for you to send any of your Western
Electric Unix Licenses---only the 4.1 or 4.2 bsd license from Berkeley.  But
please do remember to include the 4.1 or 4.2 bsd license---we've had to
write or call many sites asking for it which delays things considerably, as
well as increasing our costs.  Please do not send purchase orders as we have
no facilities for handling them.

The present distribution is the latest version of TeX82 available to us
(presently 1.0).  TeX82 has been frozen, and the only changes that will be
made in the future will be bug fixes.

Please be aware, though, that even though TeX has been frozen, this does not
mean that the current Unix TeX distribution is the "ultimate" one.
Lamport's LaTeX macro package is expected to be released for general use
within the next few months (this package will provide a Scribe-like
interface).  The TeX group at Stanford will be working on the fonts for the
next year or so so these will be changing although TeX itself should be
pretty stable after Version 1.0.  Additionally, we are adding to the Unix
distribution tape as we receive program contributions from sites already
running TeX.

I have a mailing list which receives notification of updates to TeX.  The
list is also available for those of you who may wish to address questions to
the other recipients (its address is unix-tex@Washington from the Arpanet
and CSNet, decvax!uw-beaver!unix-tex from uucp).  If you want to be included
on this list, just let me know.

			--Rick

			Furuta@Washington (ARPAnet or CSNet)
			or
			...decvax!uw-beaver!uw-june!furuta (uucp)
			...ucbvax!lbl-csam!uw-beaver!uw-june!furuta