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- From: tlm@iastate.edu (Tom Marchioro)
- Subject: Re: proper version of tex question.
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- Organization: Iowa State University, Ames IA
- References: <1993Jan9.005258.28116@news.acns.nwu.edu> <HARDY.93Jan8194056@golem.ps.uci.edu>
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- Date: Sat, 9 Jan 1993 04:33:31 GMT
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- In <HARDY.93Jan8194056@golem.ps.uci.edu> hardy@golem.ps.uci.edu (Meinhard E. Mayer (Hardy)) writes:
-
- >In article <1993Jan9.005258.28116@news.acns.nwu.edu> tcarr@casbah.acns.nwu.edu (Thomas Carr) writes:
-
- >??? A simple and probably stupid question.
- >??? Will NeXTTeX 3.0 work only on NS3.0? I'm still on NS2.1.
- >???
- >??? How can I get a copy of NeXTTeX, version "which ever one runs on my
- >??? machine?"
- >There was a pre-release version of TeX on labrea.stanford.edu, with
- >some of the features of the 3.0 release included. I just checked with
- >ange-ftp and they are still there:
- > -rw-r--r-- 1 root 102 475903 Jun 27 1992 nexttex.tar.Z
- > -rw-r--r-- 1 root 102 588659 Jun 26 1992 nexttex-alpha.tar.Z
- > -r--rw-r-- 1 root 102 32068 Jun 11 1992 dvidvi2.tar.Z
- > -r--r--r-- 1 root 102 119773 Apr 20 1992 texview-a9.tar.Z
- >also:
- > -rw-r--r-- 1 519 fsuser 690176 Nov 17 04:23 dvips5497.tar.Z
-
- >The nexttex-alpha is the one containing most of the enhancements.
-
- Just to clarify here: (1) nexttex-alpha contains ENHANCEMENTS to NeXT-TeX
- 2.0. It DOES NOT contain all of NeXT-TeX 2.0, which you need to install
- first. It contains texview-a9, so grabbing that is redundant. (2) Because
- the versions of TeXview and dvips became "wedded" during the development of
- NeXT-TeX 3.0, grabbing texview-a9 by itself does you no good as it will
- not run with the old version of dvips you have, and it ALSO DOES NOT run
- with dvips5497. DO NOT grab 5497 unless you are running NeXTstep 3.0
- (and if you are running NS 3.0 then definitely go get 5497 because it
- fixes several minor bugs --- and perhaps a few not so minor --- in the
- NeXT-TeX 3.0 release).
-
- Hope that helps a bit.
-
- Tom
-
-