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From: dca@toylnd.UUCP (David C. Albrecht)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.att
Subject: Re: UNIX/PC tex, latex, and previewer
Message-ID: <167@toylnd.UUCP>
Date: Sun, 6-Sep-87 01:22:57 EDT
Article-I.D.: toylnd.167
Posted: Sun Sep  6 01:22:57 1987
Date-Received: Tue, 8-Sep-87 05:57:28 EDT
References: <1094@vu-vlsi.UUCP>
Organization: Dave & Anne in Charlottesville, VA
Lines: 26
Keywords: TeX, LaTeX, UNIX/PC 7300
Summary: Duh.

In article <1094@vu-vlsi.UUCP>, elh@vu-vlsi.UUCP (Edward L. Hepler) writes:
> 
> I have ported the C version of TeX (and of course LaTeX) to my 3b1.
> 
> I imagine that a few (if not a lot) of those on the net with UNIX/PCs
> would like a copy of this.  The problem I have is that the C version
> of TeX source, previewer source, etc consumes 7 Meg of disk space 
> (uncompressed) while the macros and 5 magnifications of the computer
> modern font set (in pk format) takes another 4 Megs.  The executable
> of the previewer and virtex take about a half a Meg.  I never got
> an undump to work on the UNIX/PC so my call to tex or latex is simply
> a shell script that calls virtex and loads the appropriate format file.
> 
Gack!  Yes I am certainly one of those that would dearly love to have a
copy of such an animal.  Unfortunately, distributing 11 meg of stuff
is a bit problematic.  uucping it at 2400 baud would take roughly 13 hrs.
Distributing on the net I have to say then is most definitely out.
Floppies are really the only practical way to distribute that I know of.
I can certainly understand, however, not wanting to get in the floppy
duplication and distribution business especially for something of this
size.  Certainly it wouldn't be outrageous to charge time and trouble for
such duplication but I can also understand not wanting to get involved in
such a boring enterprise.  I'll be interested in hearing what you decide
to do (even if it is just sit on the stuff).

David Albrecht