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From: piet@cs.ruu.nl (Piet van Oostrum)
Newsgroups: comp.text.tex,comp.text
Subject: Re: Installing LaTeX without pc, TeX for SunOS
Keywords: LaTeX, SUN OS 4.0 , Pascal compiler,spark
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Date: 24 Feb 90 19:34:12 GMT
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In-reply-to: vs7036@leah.Albany.Edu (Vivek S.)

In article <2597@leah.Albany.Edu>, vs7036@leah (Vivek S.) writes:

	        Now is there a way by which I can compile Latex without
 `using the pascal compiler? Will a pascal to C translator do the trick?
 `The WEB-TO-C apparently does not make the pascal compiler superfluous.
 `
In article <5116@balu.UUCP>, ix@cosmo (Redaktion ix) writes:
 `Does anybody know, where to get a TeX for Sun3/50, running 
 `SunOS4.0.4.

The standard Unix TeX distribution from Washington State university,
Seattle, has web2c, a program to translate the pascal produced by tangle
into C. So you can install TeX without a pascal compiler.
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