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- From: zxmsd01@mailserv.zdv.uni-tuebingen.de (Gunther Schadow)
- Subject: 386BSD: TeX01 distribution
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- Keywords: TeX 386BSD i386
- Sender: news@softserv.zdv.uni-tuebingen.de (News Operator)
- Organization: Comp. Center (ZDV) U of Tuebingen, FRG
- Date: Tue, 21 Jul 1992 15:56:02 GMT
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- Hi all TeXnicians (and those who want to become),
-
- sorry if you missed TeX.386bsd.tar.Z at agate. It came across the
- releasing of 0.1 and got lost.
-
- >> Please stop getting on Chris' (cgd@agate) nerves with questions about TeX <<
-
- I plan to release a full TeX distribution for 386bsd, which include
- all files, necessary to run TeX (and not just to compile). Because
- 386bsd turned out to be user-friendly TeX for 386bsd will become so,
- in order to save time for the non-TeXpert to compile, install and run
- TeX successfuly.
- So far I got TeX compile and run successfuly, I had to install it
- manually, and I got up most of the necessary files to the correct
- place. I will fit the changes to web2c smoothly into the code, in
- order not to lose tex3.14 compatibility. After this is done (in
- approx. 2 or 3 days :-), I will release a distribution named TeX01.??
- into the unofficial/ directory. This will be a base to start on
- improving it.
- TeX01 will not yet be a complete release because we still lack of
- appropriate dvi-driver. Since 386bsd is a low cost (though high
- performance) operating system, we whant to keep care about low cost
- devices to be supported too. Particularly we should provide dvi-driver
- which support printers, other than HP*jet and IMAGEN, which of course
- will be supported too.
- We need an easy graphics console support very soon, because
- usability of both GhostScript and TeX suffers essentialy from not
- being able to preview the output produced by either program. Since X386
- for 386bsd will be very big and not easyly installed on screen
- graphics devices other than tseng ET400 and paradise VGA, there is
- some essential (and not trivial) part of work to be done.
- Anyone who is interested in helping to bring up TeX01 is greatly
- appreciated. Feel free to mail me, especially if you already achieved
- some progress in TeX for 386bsd.
-
- regards
- -Gunther
-
- ... now going to work ...
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