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From: dhosek@jarthur.Claremont.EDU (Donald Hosek)
Newsgroups: comp.text
Subject: Re: What is the difference between CTeX and CommonTeX?
Keywords: CTeX, CommonTeX
Message-ID: <554@jarthur.Claremont.EDU>
Date: 21 Mar 89 02:21:35 GMT
References: <307@laas.laas.fr>
Reply-To: dhosek@jarthur.UUCP (Donald Hosek)
Organization: Harvey Mudd College, Claremont, CA
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CTeX is an automatic translation into C usingthe WEB2C utility. Common TeX
is a hand translation into C by Pat Monardo. CTeX can be easily upgraded
to the current version (2.98) by replacing the WEB file and re-running
the WEB2C utility. This cannot be done with Common TeX. Common TeX can
be compiled under MS-Dos with Microsoft C. I don't think anybody has
done this with CTeX.

-dh