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- From: "George D. Greenwade" <bed_gdg@SHSU.edu>
- Newsgroups: comp.text.tex
- Subject: RE: Searching for files
- Message-ID: <00965DAD.F2C4AF60.14598@SHSU.edu>
- Date: Wed, 30 Dec 1992 09:33:38 CST
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- On Tue, 29 Dec 92 22:59:58 EST, RW Hendricks <LATEX@VTVM1.CC.VT.EDU>
- posted:
- > I am trying to print the documentation for the FLOAT styles and they
- > require a file TUGBOAT.COM. I have TUGBOAT.STY and TUGBOAT.DOC from
- > INFOTEX (SHSU), but am unaware of TUGBOAT.COM. Does anyone know where I
- > can find it?
-
- The file is being called by an old version of ltugboat.sty, which is called
- by float.tex to process float.doc. The file tugboat.com was superceded by
- tugboat.cmn in (I believe) January, 1992. You can use:
- SENDME STY.*TUG*
- in the body of a mail message to FILESERV@SHSU.BITNET (FILESERV@SHSU.edu)
- to retrieve the latest TUG-related styles.
-
- > Finally, in the printed documentation for multicol, array etc from Mainz,
- > and for reasons I do not understand, the first page (which is always
- > numbered) always is the header information placed in the file by George
- > Greenwade at SHSU
- >
- > "Save file as: docstrip.doc Source: FILESERVE@SHSU.BITNET Note: ..........etc"
- >
- > (Note that the filename is the name of whatever documentation file I am
- > printing - docstrip was the example given, but it applies to all of the
- > Mainz documentation.
- >
- > Why does this appear when it is all on lines with 3 percent signs? If I
- > delete the lines, then the checksum does not count correctly. Yet, the
- > information is not something I want on a numbered page in my file. Does
- > anyone know how I can supress this printout?
-
- The headers I include are there for information purposes only and are not a
- part of the distributions, per se. When files include standard file
- headers, clearly delineating file names as they should be retained locally,
- these are generally not prepended to the file. I include the checksum with
- the headers I generate intact so that you can verify what you receive
- against exactly what I have in the archive. In other words, to get the
- "real" distributions, strip out all of the SHSU-generated file headers.
- While they generally do not matter in processing, Mainz-type docstrip files
- are a case where they clearly matter and must be removed.
-
- I know that this is an extra step, but do not apologize for it as I would
- much rather know that you have the files as uncorrupt as possible in case
- there are problems -- i.e., you know what to call it and have the checksum
- handy to verify a clean transfer.
-
- Regards, George
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