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From: lar@pc.usl.edu (Robert Lane A.)
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Subject: CommonTeX (was Re: Fred Fish)
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Date: 23 Feb 90 17:47:57 GMT
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In-reply-to: chrisl@caen.engin.umich.edu's message of 23 Feb 90 04:52:00 GMT

In article <48cf04b2.1a5bf@moth.engin.umich.edu> chrisl@caen.engin.umich.edu (Chris Lang) writes:
   In article <2444@castle.ed.ac.uk> aiajms@castle.ed.ac.uk (Bellerophon) writes:
   >Also, could someone mail me telling me how I can get commonTeX for the
   >Amiga. I tried downloading it once by mail from fintuvm but that didnt work.
   >Is there an FTP site or a more reliable source via mail? Or can someone
   >else mail me it?

   I have also had no luck with CommonTeX from FINTUVM.  I believe it was
   uudecode that choked on what I got, twice.  Is there any other way of getting
   it?  (Eventually I'll break down and get AmigaTeX, but I want to make sure
   I'll get enough use out of it to warrant it first.)

A few weeks ago I snarfed the source to CommonTeX v2.9 from
uunet.uu.net and compiled it on my Amiga using Lattice C 5.04.  All
that was required was to rewrite the makefile so dain-bramaged lmk
could handle it.  Once it compiled, though, I found that I didn't have
enough memory to run it (only 1 MB) so I can't say if it works or not.
If you have a couple of megs of memory on your system and a C
compiler, you might want to give this a try.

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