Path: utzoo!utgpu!utstat!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!rutgers!mcnc!duke!romeo!gm From: gm@romeo.cs.duke.edu (Greg McGary) Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc Subject: Re: TeX Summary: SBTeX rules! Keywords: TeX ibm pc fonts Message-ID: <13745@duke.cs.duke.edu> Date: 5 Mar 89 21:30:49 GMT References: <1324@ndmath.UUCP> Sender: news@duke.cs.duke.edu Reply-To: gm@romeo.UUCP (Greg McGary) Organization: Duke University CS Dept.; Durham, NC Lines: 39 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. There are two free versions of TeX generally available for MSDOS. They are called DosTeX and SBTeX. Both are ftp'able from simtel20.army.mil [26.0.0.74], in pd1:. I've used both extensively, so I recommend that you probably want SBTeX. (even if you did want DosTeX, the version on simtel is sadly not the newest one) SBTeX is two to three times faster (!) than DosTeX. It also uses ~50% less memory, which is significant if you are LaTeXing large documents, you have less than 640K, or you can't live without your favorite TSRs. After you have TeX, you'll want an output driver, and fonts. You can get these from science.utah.edu [128.110.192.2]. aps: has source for drivers for many laser-printers. aps: has font-metric and packed-pixel files at many magnifications 200dpi, 240dpi and 300dpi resolutions. DosTeX comes with fonts and a driver for epson dot-matrix printers. SBTeX comes with a CGA previewer. DVIVGA is a previewer for EGA and VGA displays. It is available in both source and executable form (with fonts) from b.scs.uiuc.edu [??] This is just a thumbnail sketch of what's available. Naturally, you'll have to ftp to each of these sites and peruse the appropriate `readme' files and documentation to figure out how to use all of this stuff. But rest assured, there is a lot of high-quality, freely available TeXware for DOS. -- Greg McGary -- 4201 University Drive #102, Durham, NC 27707 voice: (919) 490-6037 -- {decvax,hplabs,seismo,mcnc}!duke!gm data: (919) 493-5953 -- gm@cs.duke.edu