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+(Message texhax/v94:10)
+From: owner-TeXhax@nottingham.ac.uk
+To: TeXhax Distribution: ;
+Subject: TeXhax Digest V94 #10
+Reply-To: TeXhax@tex.ac.uk
+Errors-To: owner-TeXhax@nottingham.ac.uk
+Distribution: world
+MIME-Version: 1.0
+Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"
+Date: Fri, 11 Nov 1994 15:20:14 +0000
+Message-ID: <11271.784567214@unicorn.ccc.nottingham.ac.uk>
+Sender: cczdao@unicorn.ccc.nottingham.ac.uk
+
+TeXhax Digest Friday, 11 Nov 1994 Volume 94 : Issue 10
+
+Today's Topics:
+ TeX for Alpha?
+ How to obtain new LaTeX?
+ Proposed merger of UKTeX with TeXhax
+ kpathsea 2.3/dvipsk 5.58c/xdvik 18d/dviljk 2.3 available
+
+
+Administrivia:
+ Moderators: David Osborne and Peter Abbott
+ Contributions: TeXhax@tex.ac.uk
+ Subscription and unsubscription requests: TeXhax-request@tex.ac.uk
+ (message body = "subscribe texhax" or "unsubscribe texhax", [no quotes])
+
+----------------------------------------------------------------------
+
+Date: Wed, 19 Oct 1994 16:31:59 +0100
+From: Julian Barquin Gil <barquin@iit.upco.es>
+Subject: TeX for Alpha?
+
+I would very much appreciate any information on the way to
+get public domain TeX and LaTeX for an alpha workstation.
+It would be very useful to get a multilingual version.
+
+ Thank you very much. Sincerely,
+
+Julian Barquin
+Instituto de Investigacion Tecnologica
+C/ Fernando el Catolico 63-D
+28015 Madrid, Spain
+Phone: +-34-1-5449088
+e-mai: barquin@iit.upco.es
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: Tue, 01 Nov 1994 09:55:17 +0800
+From: Hu Zejun <hzj@sentosa.sas.ntu.ac.sg>
+Subject: How to obtain new LaTeX?
+
+Can you tell me how I can get new version for latex?
+
+Hu Zejun
+School of Applied Science
+Nanyang Technological University
+Singapore
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: Fri, 11 Nov 1994 15:03:36 +0000
+From: David.Osborne@nottingham.ac.uk
+Subject: Proposed merger of UKTeX with TeXhax
+
+It's proposed to merge the UKTeX Digest and TeXhax Digest to form
+one TeX-oriented digest of e-mail questions, answers and announcements.
+
+Since the UK TeX Archive (formerly at Aston University, now located at
+Cambridge University) has now become part of the Comprehensive TeX
+Archive Network (CTAN), there's no longer any real need for a
+UK-oriented TeX digest, for which UKTeX was set up in 1987. A single
+digest for discussing all TeX matters simplifies the issue of "which
+digest do I post to, or should I post to both?". The intention is to
+merge the lists of subscribers at the end of this year and that after
+that date, articles posted to UKTeX will continue to be accepted, but
+will appear in TeXhax with articles posted to that digest. TeXhax
+will continue, being the "senior" digest with the larger list of
+subscribers. One difference between the digests is that UKTeX appears
+weekly, while TeXhax appears much less frequently depending on number
+of articles submitted. To begin with, at least, the plan is to post
+the new TeXhax weekly.
+
+Comments are welcomed (directly to me, please) and I'll summarise any
+responses to the digests in a few weeks.
+
+~~David Osborne
+ Cripps Computing Centre, University of Nottingham
+ <David.Osborne@nottingham.ac.uk>
+
+------------------------------
+
+Date: Thu, 27 Oct 1994 03:40:51 -0400
+From: "K. Berry" <kb@cs.umb.edu>
+Subject: kpathsea 2.3/dvipsk 5.58c/xdvik 18d/dviljk 2.3 available
+
+New versions of dvipsk/xdvik/dviljk are in the usual place:
+ ftp.cs.umb.edu:pub/tex/{xdvik,dvipsk,dviljk}.tar.gz
+ ... and CTAN and its mirrors; see the end of this message.
+Please use the nearest site, to reduce the load on our Sparc 1.
+
+The patch that John Interrante and others created for web2c 6.1 for the
+previous kpathsea release should basically work for this release; you
+can get that as the file web2c.kpathsea-2.2.help from the above sites.
+Naturally, I am working on the next release of web2c. It will be ready
+no sooner than a month or two from now (and perhaps significantly
+longer); it's no use to ask me precisely when, as I simply do not know.
+
+As always, thanks to the many people who contributed. I tried to record
+names in the ChangeLog entries.
+
+Please report bugs to tex-k@cs.umb.edu.
+Email tex-k-request@cs.umb.edu with a line containing
+ subscribe you@preferred.email.address
+in the body of the message to join this mailing list.
+
+If you only want to see announcements, not bug reports and discussion,
+subscribe to tex-archive@math.utah.edu instead. (Email
+tex-archive-request@math.utah.edu to join that list.)
+
+kb@cs.umb.edu
+Help fight the new programming monopolies -- write lpf@uunet.uu.net.
+
+
+Here's the NEWS:
+
+kpathsea 2.3
+* Extra :'s in an envvar value referring to the texmf.cnf value work.
+* Names like dpi600/cmr10.pk can be found in ls-R.
+* KPATHSEA_DEBUG environment variable checked.
+* Directories like pk/ljfour directly under $TEXMF/fonts are found.
+* New standalone program, kpsexpand, optionally compiled and installed,
+ to do variable expansion (not path searching).
+* Debugging output written to stderr instead of stdout.
+* pxlNNN support removed; I never intended to support `pxl1500'.
+
+dvipsk 5.58c
+* -o and -f once again do not read config.$PRINTER, but a new option
+ -mode and a compile-time default specify the mode.
+* \special{"...} was never supposed to have a closing quote, so don't omit it.
+
+xdvik 18d
+* New --with-ps={no,gs,dps,news} configure options; gs is still the default.
+* The file selection can be cancelled.
+* No complaints about finding 249 dpi if looking for 250.
+
+
+Here are the CTAN sites and their mirrors:
+
+prompt$ finger ctan_us@ftp.shsu.edu
+[...]
+Known partial mirrors of the CTAN reside on (alphabetically):
+ dongpo.math.ncu.edu.tw (Taiwan) /tex-archive
+ ftp.adfa.oz.au (Australia) /pub/tex/ctan
+ ftp.muni.cz (The Czech Republic) /pub/tex/CTAN
+ nic.switch.ch (Switzerland) /mirror/tex
+ ftp.cs.ruu.nl (The Netherlands) /pub/tex-archive
+
+Known mirrors of the CTAN reside on (alphabetically):
+ ftp.center.osaka-u.ac.jp (Japan) /CTAN
+ ftp.cs.rmit.edu.au (Australia) /tex-archive
+ ftp.duke.edu (North Carolina, USA) /tex-archive
+ ftp.loria.fr (France) /pub/unix/tex/ctan
+ ftp.uni-bielefeld.de (Germany) /pub/tex
+ ftp.uni-stuttgart.de (Germany) /tex-archive (/pub/tex)
+ ftp.uu.net (Virginia, USA) /pub/text-processing/TeX
+ ftpserver.nus.sg (Singapore) /pub/zi/TeX
+ src.doc.ic.ac.uk (England) /packages/tex/uk-tex
+ sunsite.unc.edu (North Carolina, USA) /pub/packages/TeX
+ wuarchive.wustl.edu (Missouri, USA) /packages/TeX
+Please send updates to this list to <CTAN-Mgr@SHSU.edu>.
+
+The participating hosts in the Comprehensive TeX Archive Network are:
+ ftp.dante.de (Germany)
+ -- anonymous ftp /tex-archive (/pub/tex /pub/archive)
+ -- e-mail via ftpmail@dante.de
+ -- Administrator: <ftpmaint@dante.de>
+ ftp.shsu.edu (Texas, USA)
+ -- anonymous ftp and gopher /tex-archive (/pub/tex /pub/archive)
+ -- NFS mountable from ftp.SHSU.edu:/pub/ftp/tex-archive
+ -- e-mail via ftpmail@ftp.SHSU.edu
+ -- World Wide Web access on www.SHSU.edu
+ -- Administrator: <CTAN-Mgr@SHSU.edu>
+ ftp.tex.ac.uk (England)
+ -- anonymous ftp /tex-archive (/pub/tex /pub/archive)
+ -- gopher on node gopher.tex.ac.uk
+ -- NFS mountable from nfs.tex.ac.uk:/public/ctan/tex-archive
+ -- World Wide Web access on www.tex.ac.uk
+ -- Administrator: <ctan-uk@tex.ac.uk>
+
+------------------------------
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+
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+
+Backnumbers of all the digests are stored in the Comprehensive TeX
+Archive Network (CTAN) and can be retrieved on the Internet by
+anonymous ftp.
+
+The hosts comprising CTAN include
+ ftp.dante.de (129.69.1.12) -- Germany
+ ftp.shsu.edu (192.92.115.10) -- USA
+ ftp.tex.ac.uk (128.232.1.87) -- UK
+Please use your nearest server, to keep network load down.
+The file /tex-archive/CTAN.sites on each of these hosts gives a
+list of other sites which maintain full or partial mirrors of the CTAN.
+
+TeXhax Digest issues are kept in
+ tex-archive/digests/texhax/YEAR/texhax.ISSUE
+ (e.g., /pub/archive/digests/texhax/92/texhax.20)
+
+Keyword-In-Context Indexes are kept in
+ tex-archive/digests/indexes/texhaxYY.idx
+ (e.g., /pub/archive/digests/indexes/texhax92.idx)
+
+\bye
+
+End of TeXhax Digest [Volume 94 Issue 10]
+*****************************************