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- From: nieland_t@kahuna.asc-yf.wpafb.af.mil
- Newsgroups: vmsnet.sources.d
- Subject: Re: TeX for VMS?
- Message-ID: <1992Nov20.173855.199@kahuna.asc-yf.wpafb.af.mil>
- Date: 20 Nov 92 17:38:55 EST
- References: <1992Nov16.092358.1855@ccsvax.sfasu.edu> <TARJEIJ.92Nov17163702@ulrik.uio.no>
- Organization: USAF ASC/YF, WPAFB, Dayton, OH
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- In article <TARJEIJ.92Nov17163702@ulrik.uio.no>, tarjeij@ulrik.uio.no (Tarjei Jensen) writes:
- > There is a TeX for VMS called DECUS TeX (vs0058). The last version I know of is
- > spring '91. It is becoming a bit old these days. You may want to get hold of a
- > more modern Unix version and port it to VMS (using the Unix change files and C
- > makes it easy). I mention this because our TeX has run out of space when trying
- > to use NFSS (the new font selection scheme), dc fonts and multiple hyphenation
- > patterns. So I'm looking high and low for a cheap Unix/MSDOS/VMS compatible
- > TeX distribution (As long as I can read the files I can get this working under
- > VMS). If DECUS is about to release a new version of DECUS TeX I would very much
- > like to know.
- >
- > Greetings,
- >
- > --
- > // Tarjei T. Jensen - if it ain't broken, fix it anyway!
-
- There have been several updates on the VAX/L&T SIG Tapes for VMS TeX
- including a BIG TeX port. I haven't put out an update to the last DECUS TeX
- Collection since I haven't seen an major updates come out for TeX/LaTeX or
- such. Most of the minor updates have been on the L&T portion of the SIG tapes
- (TeX, LaTeX, and a DVIPS update).
-
- Also, a couple of times I have looked at porting WEB-to-C to VMS and I have
- found that it is non-trival. Therefore, I have not had the time to do such.
- If anyone has ported WEB-to-C to VMS, I would be very interested.
-
- Also, the Latest version of the DECUS TeX Collection been available from
- wuarchive.wustl.edu and from DECUS LUGs.
- --
- Ted Nieland nieland_t@kahuna.asc-yf.wpafb.af.mil
- (513) 476-4639 nieland@ted.hcst.com
- Hassler Communications Systems Technology
-
- also the DECUS TeX Collection Editor
-