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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!news.Hawaii.Edu!ames!haven.umd.edu!uunet!pipex!marble.uknet.ac.uk!mcsun!sun4nl!tuegate.tue.nl!rwc.urc.tue.nl!rcpt From: rcpt@rwc.urc.tue.nl (Piet Tutelaers) Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.apps Subject: Re: TeX? Keywords: TeX LaTeX binaries Message-ID: <rcpt.733187495@rwc.urc.tue.nl> Date: 26 Mar 93 23:11:35 GMT References: <f0VnUpu@quack.kfu.com> Sender: news@tuegate.tue.nl Reply-To: rcpt@urc.tue.nl Lines: 85 dfox@quack.kfu.com (David Fox) writes: >Hi, >I am looking for a binary distribution of a 386BSD ported TeX and the >ancillary programs (dvips, dvi2tty, etc.). >I wandered over to agate.berkeley.edu, in the TeX directory >(/pub/386BSD/386bsd-0.1/unofficial/ports/TeX) and found a 600K or so >tar.Z file, but that only contains a few new things like xdvi binaries >and source. The other big set of split sources is too big, of course, >to put into my machine at present. >Is there such a thing? How much total disk space does it need, and do >I need to install TeX fonts too, or can I use the fonts in Ghostscript >(I plan on using dvips to take TeX documents to the 24 pin dmp I have). I have a fairly complete TeX/METAFONT package consisting of the following binaries: dvips* mf* ps2pk* virtex* dvitype* mft* slitex* vptovf* MakeTeXPK* gftodvi* patgen* tangle* weave* afm2tfm* gftopk* pk2bm* tex* xdvi* amslatex* gftype* pktogf* texinfo* amstex* inimf* pktype* tftopl* bibtex* initex* pltotf* vftovp* dvicopy* latex* pooltype* virmf* Other highly needed programs like ghostscript and ghostview are also available but reside on another place. At the moment I don't have any PCL drivers. My version does also contain some non-PD things like MathTime (a PostScript extension for Times so you can do math in PostScript). MakeTeXPK is setup so it can automatically generate PK fonts given its PostScript or METAFONT description. This means you can preview PostScript fonts using xdvi! I could make a stripped down 386BSD distribution in some ortogonal sets if there is real interest. My version uses the babel package to select between Dutch (my mother language) and English (the default). Here is a du overview of the TeX and METAFONT directories: 73 /usr/local/lib/tex/ps 3096 /usr/local/lib/tex/macros 3347 /usr/local/lib/tex/formats 161 /usr/local/lib/tex/fonts/vf 868 /usr/local/lib/tex/fonts/tfm 6258 /usr/local/lib/tex/fonts/pk 1 /usr/local/lib/tex/fonts/afm 7289 /usr/local/lib/tex/fonts 963 /usr/local/lib/tex/extra-fonts 406 /usr/local/lib/tex/docs/ntg 366 /usr/local/lib/tex/docs/multicol 309 /usr/local/lib/tex/docs/latexstyle 79 /usr/local/lib/tex/docs/latex 92 /usr/local/lib/tex/docs/bibtex 424 /usr/local/lib/tex/docs/babel30b 19 /usr/local/lib/tex/docs/babel-tests 1168 /usr/local/lib/tex/docs/amslatex 365 /usr/local/lib/tex/docs/ams 59 /usr/local/lib/tex/docs/TeX30 3639 /usr/local/lib/tex/docs 104 /usr/local/lib/tex/man/man1 105 /usr/local/lib/tex/man 3536 /usr/local/lib/tex/bin 22075 /usr/local/lib/tex 19 /usr/local/lib/mf/typefaces/tue 4 /usr/local/lib/mf/typefaces/slant 4 /usr/local/lib/mf/typefaces/mfbook 14 /usr/local/lib/mf/typefaces/logo 7 /usr/local/lib/mf/typefaces/half 11 /usr/local/lib/mf/typefaces/gray 28 /usr/local/lib/mf/typefaces/committee 1005 /usr/local/lib/mf/typefaces/cm 23 /usr/local/lib/mf/typefaces/chess 5 /usr/local/lib/mf/typefaces/black 1121 /usr/local/lib/mf/typefaces 1807 /usr/local/lib/mf/type1faces/ResidentFonts 107 /usr/local/lib/mf/type1faces/MathTime 1915 /usr/local/lib/mf/type1faces 52 /usr/local/lib/mf/macros 122 /usr/local/lib/mf/bases 3233 /usr/local/lib/mf --Piet