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From: monardo@renoir.Berkeley.EDU (Pat Monardo)
Newsgroups: comp.text
Subject: Re: ctex documentation
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Date: Sun, 6-Sep-87 21:32:08 EDT
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>In article <540@rocky.STANFORD.EDU> rokicki@rocky.UUCP (Tomas Rokicki) writes:
>>>>$ I recently got ctex running on my 6300pc by hacking the file tex.h.
>      (This above comment is not from Tom)
>>
>>Please, folks, Pat Monardo's Common TeX is Common TeX; my version of
>>TeX in C is CTeX.
>>-tom


Common TeX is the only freely avaiable C version of TeX
and is the only source level (WEB) translation available. 
The source follows the TeX volumes exactly and assumes
that you have them. CTeX is probably faster since instead
of tuning Common TeX I embarked on a Metafont translation.
This translation is done but not debugged. That means I dont
fully understand the program yet and have just begun the
debugging (learning) process. However, Metafont is a much more 
interesting program than TeX, which is why Common TeX has
not been tuned up yet. However, it is solid and
I have received one complaint since the second release
and that was resolved the same day.

! N.B.: I dont distribute the entire TeX system.
I made it available to ftp since the people who could use
it were people who already have the TeX distribution
and have a wide variety of strange machines, i.e. universities.

I have a first shot at an AT port.  In fact, ver 2.1 is the AT port.
So I could help you with AT problems.
The problem is that to run LaTeX requires modification to the
basic TeX program and I didnt want to introduce incompatibilities.
I have a LaTeX which can run healty jobs but I had to force it
by hacking INITEX and it isnt stable.

	?pat