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diff --git a/info/digests/uktex/94/uktex.14 b/info/digests/uktex/94/uktex.14 new file mode 100644 index 0000000000..118b1c6fb6 --- /dev/null +++ b/info/digests/uktex/94/uktex.14 @@ -0,0 +1,168 @@ +From: UKTeX-Request@ftp.tex.ac.uk +To: UKTeX Distribution: ; +Subject: UKTeX Digest V94 #14 +Reply-To: UKTeX@ftp.tex.ac.uk +Distribution: world +MIME-Version: 1.0 +Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" +Date: Fri, 08 Apr 1994 17:51:31 +0100 +Message-ID: <8585.765823891@unicorn.ccc.nottingham.ac.uk> +Sender: cczdao@unicorn.ccc.nottingham.ac.uk + +UKTeX Digest Friday, 8 Apr 1994 Volume 94 : Issue 14 + + ``The UKTeX Digest is brought to you as a free, unfunded and voluntary + service of the UK TeX Users Group and the UK TeX Archive.'' + +Today's Topics: + {Archive News}: + UK TeX Archive now back online + + +Administrivia: + Moderators: Peter Abbott (Aston University) and + David Osborne (University of Nottingham) + Contributions: UKTeX@ftp.tex.ac.uk + Administration, subscription and unsubscription requests: + UKTeX-request@ftp.tex.ac.uk + +---------------------------------------------------------------------- + +Date: Fri, 08 Apr 1994 17:49:24 +0100 +From: David Osborne <cczdao@unicorn.nott.ac.uk> +Subject: UK TeX Archive now back online + +There have been problems with accessing both of the machines holding +the UK TeX Archive in the last couple of weeks. First, the original +archive machine, tex.ac.uk, went down when a vital part of its innards +failed; this took engineers some time to diagnose. That machine runs +the primary DNS nameserver for the domain tex.ac.uk, so after a week, +the cached data in the secondary nameservers was timed out, resulting +in the name for the Sun archive, ftp.tex.ac.uk, to be unknown and +therefore inaccessible unless you happened to know its IP address +(134.151.79.32). + +Happily, the VAX was resurrected and all should now be functioning normally. +We've got a transition strategy for moving to the situation where the +Sun becomes *the* archive machine and will announce changes here as +they take place. However, you should even now consider the Sun to be +holding the latest, definitive copies of TeX software, as it's part of +the CTAN (Comprehensive TeX Archive Network), which aims to automatically +update a set of archive machines with identical, up-to-date files. +For details of the other CTAN machines, see the footer of this digest. + +~~David Osborne + (UK TeX Archive Group) + +------------------------------ + + UK TeX Archive at Aston University + >>> ftp.tex.ac.uk <<< + + Internet: + ftp.tex.ac.uk [134.151.79.32] -- anonymous ftp, gopher, NFS + For anonymous ftp, login: anonymous, password: <your-e-mail-address> + +\section Files of Interest + + tex-archive/00Contents + tex-archive/FILES.bydate + tex-archive/FILES.byname + tex-archive/FILES.byname_diff + tex-archive/FILES.bysize + tex-archive/MAP + tex-archive/README.archive-features + tex-archive/README.site-commands + tex-archive/README.uploads + +\section Digests + + This year's UKTeX back issues are stored in the archive in directory + tex-archive/digests/uktex/94 + This year's TeXhax back issues are stored in the archive in directory + tex-archive/digests/texhax/94 + Latest TeXhax: V94 #02 + +\section Media Distributions + Postal addresses are given below. + +\subsection Washington Unix TeX distribution tape + Our latest copy of May/June 1991 contains: + TeX 3.14, LaTeX 2.09, Metafont 2.7, plus many utilities + suitable for Unix 4.2/4.3BSD & System V + tar format, 1 file (36Mb) + + Send One Quarter-Inch Cartridge, QIC-120 or QIC-150 format + (DC600A or DC6150) with envelope AND stamps for return + postage to David Osborne (address below); due to currency + exchange, this service is offered only within the UK. + +\section TeX Implementations for Small Computers + +\subsection PC and Mac disks + + From January 1994 the UK TeX Users' Group is distributing an + emTeX kit for PCs, and an OzTeX kit for Macintosh. The cost + covers copying and postage costs, and the shareware fee for + OzTeX. Each set costs \pounds30, and is available from + Peter Abbott, 1 Eymore Close, Selly Oak, Birmingham B29 4LB. + Cheques must be payable to `UKTUG'. Please note that this + service **is available to UKTUG members only.** + + Each set comes with an installation guide, and (at least) + full TeX and Metafont, a previewer, a PostScript driver, and + CM fonts. Two update disks a year will be sent out + automatically, with the current version of LaTeXe, and other + goodies. A subscription service will be available for + subsequent years. In addition, subscribers can request up to + 3 disks a year with any material from the CTAN archives, but + this will be supplied `as is', without instructions. + + OzTeX and emTeX are also available on disk from TeX Users Group; + mail TUG for details. + +\subsection TeX for the Atari ST + + Enquiries for TeX for the Atari ST etc. can be directed to: + The Fast Club, 7 Musters Road, Nottingham NG2 7PP. Phone + 0602 455250, fax 0602 455305. They also supply a variety of + TeX-related software in Atari format. + + Enquiries for disks etc. can also be directed to: + The South West Software Library, P.O. Box 562, Wimborne, Dorset BH21 2YD + Internet: mdryden@cix.compulink.co.uk + +\section Postage Rates + + Quarter-inch cartridges: UK: GBP 1.00, Europe: GBP 2.00. + +\section Postal Addresses + + Please include SELF-ADDRESSED ADHESIVE LABELS for return postage. + + Peter Abbott + Information Systems, Aston University, Aston Triangle, Birmingham B4 7ET + Internet: P.Abbott@aston.ac.uk + + David Osborne + Cripps Computing Centre, University of Nottingham, Nottingham NG7 2RD + (for Unix cartridges ONLY -- must include stamps for return postage) + Internet: David.Osborne@nottingham.ac.uk + + TeX Users Group + P.O. Box 869, Santa Barbara, CA 93102, USA. + Internet: TUG@TUG.org + +\section UK TeX Users Group + + Details available from + Jonathan Fine, 203 Coldhams Lane, Cambridge CB1 3HY, UK + or from + Internet: UKTuG-Enquiries@ftp.tex.ac.uk + or from + World-Wide Web server: http://ftp.tex.ac.uk/UKTUG/home.html + +\bye + +End of UKTeX Digest [Volume 94 Issue 14] +**************************************** |