Path: utzoo!utgpu!watmath!julian!uwovax!16012_3045
From: 16012_3045@uwovax.uwo.ca (Paul Gomme)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: TeX
Message-ID: <1795@uwovax.uwo.ca>
Date: 5 Mar 89 16:20:34 GMT
References: <1324@ndmath.UUCP>
Lines: 11
Organisation: Department of Economics, UWO, London, Ontario, Canada

In article <1324@ndmath.UUCP>, rsn@ndmath.UUCP (Ross Niebergall) writes:
> I have some questions about TeX for pc's.  First of all, is it available?
> Next if it is available, is it in the public domain.  If it is in the public
> domain is there somewhere where I can ftp a copy from, or is there at least
> somewhere where i could get fonts for it via ftp.

I know that there are also commercial versions available, but I've had
success using SBTeX.  It's available from SIMTEL20 as
PD1:<MSDOS.TEX>SBTEX.ARC.  Fonts are available from science.utah.edu
(118.110.192.2); there should be some sort of info file which tells
you exactly where to find the relevant files.