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Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!news.Hawaii.Edu!ames!olivea!decwrl!decwrl!csus.edu!netcom.com!alm From: alm@netcom.com (Andrew Moore) Subject: Re: How big is a full installation of NetBSD? Message-ID: <almCDsF30.8MK@netcom.com> Organization: Netcom Online Communications Services (408-241-9760 login: guest) References: <CDpKsD.76v@usenet.ucs.indiana.edu> <1993Sep21.214315.2447@newstand.syr.edu> <MYCROFT.93Sep22073637@duality.gnu.ai.mit.edu> Date: Thu, 23 Sep 1993 03:30:35 GMT Lines: 24 In article <MYCROFT.93Sep22073637@duality.gnu.ai.mit.edu> mycroft@duality.gnu.ai.mit.edu (Charles Hannum) writes: > > I could not get the TeX for 386bsd distribution (TeX01.5.tar.z) to > work under NetBSD 0.8 or 0.9. I don't have X, and there is no easy > way to get the thing to compile without it (I think due to X calls > in Metafont). > >Right. That TeX distribution is not very good. I recommend Karl >Berry's, on ftp.cs.umb.edu (I think). Hm. I have not looked at Karl Berry's TeX, but I, and I know several others, can say that Gunther's package is excellent. It is well organized, fully and easily configurable; it has the absolutely the latest TeX sources; he has integrated and consolidated several programs. Best of all, it compiles without missing a beat. Unfortunately, Gunther used GNU utilities in building the scripts, not realizing the incompatiblities with BSD utilites. This has all been corrected in the FreeBSD version of his TeX01.5 package. Several people have installed and are using it without a hitch. This package is currently available in source form from FreeBSD.cdrom.com. It should work without changes on NetBSD, but I haven't verified this. -AM