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- TeX is a computer typesetting language, authored by Donald Knuth at
- Stanford University.
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- DosTeX is Electronetics, Incorporated's port of TeX to the Microsoft
- MSDOS Operating system for IBM-compatible personal computers.
- The DosTeX implementation is copyright (c) Electronetics, Inc.
- Redistribution information is in the file COPYING.DOC
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- DosTeX is a complete and true implementation of TeX, version 2.7,
- having passed the `trip' verification suite. This distribution
- contains versions of TeX, LaTeX (Leslie Lamport's macro package)
- and AmSTeX (American Mathematical Society's macro package).
- System requirements are 640K memory and 4.5Mb disk space.
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- Also included is a .dvi file-reading program to postprocess
- DosTeX output. It is intended to drive an Epson printer at
- 240 dots per inch horizontal resolution and 216 dots per inch
- vertical resolution. It is an experimental version adapted from the
- public domain family of .dvi driver programs written by Nelson Beebe
- at the University of Utah.
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- The main user documentation for DosTeX is "The TeXbook" by Donald
- Knuth, published by Addison-Wesley (ISBN 0-201-13488-9). The
- main documentation for LaTeX is "LaTeX: A Document Preparation System"
- by Leslie Lamport, published by Addison-Wesley (ISBN 0-201-15790-X).
-
- Basic documentation for the .dvi drivers is contained in
- the file dvieps.doc.
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- "TeX", the TeX logo and the TeX lion are trademarks of the
- American Mathematical Society. The original source code is
- copyright (c) Donald Knuth.
-