TeX/LaTeX/Previewer for 3b1 (repost)

[Edward L. Hepler]

Since there seems to be renewed interest in TeX/LaTeX for the UNIX/PC
and 3b1 I thought that I would repost this...  I have hesitated from 
reposting because copying all the disks people sent me the last 
time took a lot of time...  Since the last distribution, I have made
a couple of minor modifications to the previewer and recompiled it
using the shared library... Other than that, it is the same...

Here is the original posting (from last year) with corrections/additions 
marked in [].

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I have finally determined the distribution stategy for the port
of TeX/LaTeX/Previewer that I did for the UNIX/PC.  Thanks to all
of you who made suggestions.  After reading all the comments that
were sent in and consulting with the system manager of the machine
where I receive mail (vu-vlsi), I decided to go the floppy disk route
and try to use the same mechanism that Brant Cheikes is using for the
Gnu Emacs distribution.
 
Almost all that is to be distributed is available elsewhere. Much
of what is there I got off the net or from other "ftp-able" places.
What I have done is port them to the UNIX/PC and in the case of the
previewer rewrite the dvibit driver to work on the UNIX/PC (and Sun!).

Included on the floppies are:

	1. The source for Common TeX
	2. The source for Nelson Beebe's dvi drivers
	3. The necessary macros to make TeX/LaTeX work
	4. About a half dozen magnifications of the computer modern fonts
	5. Source for tgrind, s2latex, and tr2tex
	5. Executables for tex, latex, previewer, tgrind, s2latex, tr2latex

The porting process was accomplished on my UNIX/PC which is using the 3.5 
release of the OS and the 3.51 release of the utilities.

I have only run these programs on a 2 Meg (RAM) system. I have no way of
knowing how they might work on other configurations of RAM or OS.

Everything is compressed and cpio'd onto 12 floppies.  
You should be able to use the install utility to pull things off the disks
and uncompress the files.
Uncompressed, the files take about 7 Meg (I have pared things down since
the initial announcement and also misinterpreted the results of du (I work
on a Sun during the day where du gives results in 1k blocks...)).
If you use the script, you will need about twice that (14 Meg) since I use
cpio -p... to move the data to the correct directory. [Last sentence not
correct; I us the -pl option.] If you can't spare
that much space to do the install, you can manually install the stuff directly
in /usr/local. Installation takes about 30-45 minutes. Most of the time is
spent uncompressing things. [Uncompress is included on the disk]

I place everything under the directory /usr/local.  If that creates heartburn
for you, you will have to manually install the stuff and recompile some of 
the programs (which look to /usr/local/lib/tex... for info).  Some of the
programs allow an environment variable to be set (I think!) to provide alternate
paths for the library. I haven't used that feature....

You will have to put /usr/local/bin in your path.

Like Brant [with EMACS], I am distributing the TeX/LaTeX stuff on floppies
only; no uucp transfers will be provided.  The files are huge and I
cannot afford to have my one data line tied up for long periods.  If
anyone else wants to provide uucp access to these distributions,
that's fine by me. I would request that any changes, enhancements, etc.
be channelled back through me so that we can keep track of revisions...

You can probably get by with much less disk space after you get the system
up.  Some of you may want to delete some of the font magnifications and
the source, etc.


GETTING THE DISTRIBUTION

In order to get the distribution from me, please do the following:

1. Write a note specifying:

	a) your US Mail address (where you want the disks sent back to)

	b) your electronic mail address.  Please make sure
	   you give me a route from a registered site (preferably
	   a backbone).

2. You will have to send me 12 DSDD diskettes (with hub rings and
labels) for me to put the distribution on. Please format the disks
using the standard floppy disk formatting utility (for the 7300).
[Only 10 floppies are needed if you format the disks at 10 sectors/track.]

3. Make out a check to me (Edward Hepler) in the amount of $20.
This is [a donation] just to cover my distribution and administration costs.
[Like return postage, etc.]

4. Package all this up together in a sturdy (reusable) mailer and mail it to:

	Ed Hepler
	794 Bass Cove
	Malvern, Pa. 19355

5. After you've mailed the package, please send me e-mail so that I'll
be on the lookout for it. (to elh at vu-vlsi)

When I mail the diskettes back to you, I'll notify you by e-mail so
you can watch out for them.

If you have any questions, feel free to contact me by e-mail.

-- 
Ed Hepler
UUCP: elh at vu-vlsi