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- From: kt@keihh.hanse.de (Kei Thomsen)
- Newsgroups: comp.os.os9
- Subject: Re: TeX for OSK is on hermit
- Message-ID: <F+zNDG@keihh.hanse.de>
- Date: 29 Aug 92 06:28:14 GMT
- References: <AeaIUNm00WB8ESTUZA@andrew.cmu.edu>
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- In article <AeaIUNm00WB8ESTUZA@andrew.cmu.edu> "Russell E. Hoffman, II" <rh2y+@andrew.cmu.edu> writes:
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- >Well, folks, after chasing it for nearly three years, I have finally found
- >a PD version of the TeX typesetting program ported to OS9/68000. It is the
- >port done by John Wainwright.
- >...
- > Included are the source code to virtex and initex, as well as executables
- >of each, and source code to dvi2tty, a dumb-terminal dvi previewer. I also
-
- And what about Metafont, BibTeX ... ?
-
- >included a simple C program called 'tex', which does the command line
- >substitution of 'tex foo.tex' for the more cumbersome 'virtex &plain foo.tex'
- >Now all that is needed is a printer driver to take the dvi files and print
- >them out, as well as the rastered font files required for that printer driver.
- >Let me know if you have source for a dvi driver of some sort. I'm looking
- >for a dvi-to-epson driver myself, though I'm sure others are interested in the
- >drivers and fonts for their respective printers as well.
-
- I ported TeX 2 years ago and it runs perfect (and very fast, because I changed the
- file IO to direkt read() and write() ).
- I have also very many DVI-Drivers (HP Laser, HP Deskjet, NEC P6, Epson, PS ...)
- and a very fast preview (direct to my VGA).
-
- Kei
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