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- Path: sparky!uunet!rde!gator!larry
- From: larry@gator.rn.com (Larry Snyder)
- Subject: Re: bin. distribution for Tex/LaTex?
- Message-ID: <Bt2sK4.6FG@gator.rn.com>
- Organization: The Gator Public Access Unix Site - 219-289-3745
- References: <16145@ucdavis.ucdavis.edu>
- Distribution: comp.unix.sysv386
- Date: Sun, 16 Aug 1992 12:12:04 GMT
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- shih@madrone.eecs.ucdavis.edu (Alan S. Shih) writes:
-
- >can ANYONE tell me where to find binary distributions of TeX and LaTeX
- >for SysvR4? I have seen it before but forget where it is. However, I
-
- I hate to say this - but to my suprise Dell now ships TeX with
- their SVR4 2.2 release. Yes -- it's all ready to run "out of the
- box". Of course, source code is also distributed for all the GNU
- products on the end of the tape.
-
- I haven't fired it up - since I (as of today) have no need for it
-
- If you don't have Dell, try ftping to dell.com and snooping around.
-
- Dell updated a good portion of the GNU software, plus added several
- packages with the 2.2 release keeping it on top. Dell once again
- spent the time to fix the bugs in the stock product instead of being
- the first guy to ship (which typically results in having the most
- bugs).
-
- --
- Larry Snyder internet: larry@gator.rn.com
-