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From: ken@rochester.UUCP
Newsgroups: comp.text
Subject: Re: A question about WEB and bibtex
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Date: Fri, 13-Feb-87 15:21:53 EST
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Posted: Fri Feb 13 15:21:53 1987
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Keywords: HELP!

|unfamiliar with pascal (is that 3 strikes yet?).  Anyway, I ran
|tangle on bibtex.web and it worked fine.  But, pc does not like
|the .p file at all (this is a 4.2BSD system).  It has problems with
|the lines "writeln(tty" and "write(tty".  It says tty is undefined.
|Now what do I do?  What should be put where tty is?  What should a
|changefile look like?  How do I get BiBTeX running or is it hopeless?
|
|Please e-mail me responses as this is probably not of interest to others.

I think this is of interest to many people. This question comes up all
the time: where can I get free TeX or TeX software? Rest assured, TeX
is free, one can ftp stuff from score.stanford.edu. I think they would
be happier if one did it outside working hours, though. (C-TeX is also
here.)

Problem is, TeX and TeX software are mostly in Pascal and Pascal needs
help to cope with OS dependencies. Changefiles are basically patch
files generate slightly different Pascal outputs from the WEB file.
Sometimes, auxiliary routines written in other languages may be needed.
Thus one may find it more frustrating to work out what the changes
for ones local system are than to just get the machine/os specific
distribution, where someone has already done the grunge work. Look in a
recent issue of Tugboat for the site coordinators. TeXHax-request@score.
stanford.edu is the place to get on the TeXHaX mailing list where you
will get Q and A from other users.

So the specific answer to your question is: find a friendly 4.2 site
with the BibTeX files.

I'm just glad TeX isn't in SAIL anymore.

	Ken