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From: ken@cs.rochester.edu (Ken Yap)
Newsgroups: comp.sources.wanted,comp.text
Subject: Re: TeX tools; Request for source information.
Message-ID: <8189@sol.ARPA>
Date: 30 Mar 88 12:52:59 GMT
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Reply-To: ken@cs.rochester.edu (Ken Yap)
Organization: U of Rochester, CS Dept, Rochester, NY
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Keywords: TeX, CTeX, PicTex, LaTeX, sources

For Unix at least, here are the answers:

TeX and LaTeX are available from U. of Washington. Here is the blurb
from the last TUGBOAT I have:

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How to order:

To order a full distribution of TeX, send $100.00 (foreign sites
$110.00, to cover the extra postage) payable to the University of
Washington to:

	Pierre A. MacKay
	Northwest Computer Support Group, DW-10
	University of Washington
	Seattle, Washington 98195

The normal distribution is a tar tape, blocked 20, 1600 bpi. If you
need 1/4 in streamer cartridges for the SUN, be sure to tell us.
Although we have had problems previously with cartridge tapes, we can
usually hope to get them out quite fast now.
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The TeX sources on the Unix tape require BSD Pascal. Apparently the
tape now includes a TeXtoC translator that allows WEB to be translated
to C and reports have come in of TeX working on SysV machines like the
3B series. You can ftp tex-to-c from june.cs.washington.edu.

METAFONT is also on this tape. You should definitely get a tape if you
are serious about installing Unix TeX because there is a lot of
essential stuff on it, such as the macros and the fonts. And it is too
big to ftp. Our 2-year old distribution is some 35Mb.

There is another TeX in C called Common-TeX. There is some dispute over
whether it passed the trip test (and therefore can be called TeX).
Last I heard, it was available by ftp from ucbvax.berkeley.edu.

PicTeX is a macro package that sits on top of TeX. It is avaliable from
Michael Wichura of U. Chicago. You can ftp it from
june.cs.washington.edu also. But you need the manual to use PicTeX,
which Wichura is distributing for $15, last I heard. Apparently it will
be published as a book eventually.  I have not used PicTeX, but hear
that it can easily eat up a lot of TeX's memory.

Finally, there is a mailing list for TeX hackers and users called
TeXHax.  If you are on the Internet, send a message to
texhax-request@score.stanford.edu to join. Bitnet users should do
this:

%%% subscribe, simply send a one line mail message to LISTSERV@TAMVM1
%%% that reads:
%%%  SUBSCRIBE TEX-L <your "real time" name>

	Ken