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From: benten@tigger.colorado.edu (Muhammad S. Benten)
Newsgroups: unix-pc.general,comp.sys.att
Subject: Re: An improved 3b1 TeX previewer
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Date: 26 Jan 89 19:52:36 GMT
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Reply-To: benten@tigger.colorado.edu (Muhammad S. Benten)
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Hi netlanders,

           I have received over 20 requests for the improved 3b1
TeX previewer so far. Many of these requests are for the complete
sources for this program. Let me tell you about the situation and
please mail me any suggestions on distributing this program.

The original TeXview package is a huge set of files that implements
the TeXview on tens of printers and machines. It is about 0.5 Meg
compressed tar file excluding a compressed Meg of fonts and macros.  
However, for the new 3b1 previewer only 3
files are changed and 2 more are added. I certainly cannot post
the whole sources but can post the modified and new files required
for the 3b1 at any time.  The other alternative is to make a stripped
version of the previewer for the 3b1 which will be about 150K, but
this will take some time and I do not know how legal is it (????).

The new previewer can be linked with the shared libraries and the
executable size is less than 50k compared to the original 150k+.
I'd appreciate any comments and suggestions.




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   || Muhammad S. Benten                                                      |
   || Elect. & Comp. Eng. Dept.                                               |
   || University of Colorado, Boulder                                         |
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