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- From: dodd@mycenae.cchem.berkeley.edu (Lawrence R. Dodd)
- Newsgroups: comp.text.tex
- Subject: Re: Concerning "What happened to byron.u.w
- Date: 11 Dec 92 12:04:40
- Organization: Dept of Chemical Engineering, Polytechnic Univ, NY, USA
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- In-reply-to: cwmrob@rivm.nl's message of 11 Dec 92 12:59:36 GMT
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- >>>>> "Robert" == Robert Sanders <cwmrob@rivm.nl> writes:
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- Robert> dodd@mycenae.cchem.berkeley.edu (Lawrence R. Dodd) writes:
- > I still think it's the world's most difficult piece of software to install
- > correctly.
-
- Robert> Really?
- Robert> When I decided to install (La)TeX on our Sun's I was (mentally) prepared for
- Robert> the worst, but it turned out to be fairly is to install.
- Robert> Actually the ftp-transfer took more time than the installing of the
- Robert> package itself.
- Robert> The only thing that confused me was that there were 2 files with
- Robert> instructions, that didn't totally agree with each other (Although I think
- Robert> both of them were correct).
- Robert> What took a lot more time was the installing of all the extra packages
- Robert> and fonts that can be found on other ftp sites.
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- I guess I don't consider TeX installed until I can go from file, to display,
- to paper. That is, web2c is fairly easy but isn't the end. I think a roadmap
- description should be put in the FAQ about describing what is needed and where
- to get it.
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- Larry
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