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diff --git a/info/digests/uktex/94/uktex.18 b/info/digests/uktex/94/uktex.18 new file mode 100644 index 0000000000..b26ad3bc70 --- /dev/null +++ b/info/digests/uktex/94/uktex.18 @@ -0,0 +1,252 @@ +From: UKTeX-Request@ftp.tex.ac.uk +To: UKTeX Distribution: ; +Subject: UKTeX Digest V94 #18 +Reply-To: UKTeX@ftp.tex.ac.uk +Distribution: world +MIME-Version: 1.0 +Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" +Date: Fri, 06 May 1994 16:35:59 +0100 +Message-ID: <19679.768238559@unicorn.ccc.nottingham.ac.uk> +Sender: cczdao@unicorn.ccc.nottingham.ac.uk + +UKTeX Digest Friday, 6 May 1994 Volume 94 : Issue 18 + + ``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: + {Questions & Answers}: + Wish to download EMTEX for MS-DOS + TeX for VAX/VMS? + Raising awareness + integral sign + dvidvi + MetaPost + +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: Wed, 27 Apr 1994 19:52:00 +0530 +From: CHANDAN@tifrvax.tifr.res.in +Subject: Wish to download EMTEX for MS-DOS + + We had earlier used EMTEX and were conversant with it. We lost +the files in a disk crash. We therefore need to get a copy of EMTEX +for MS-DOS. we are not experts in ftp, file down load, etc. +we know how to login via ftp. We accessed tex.ac.uk but +could not make out which files to down load for EMTeX. +Have you deleted EMTEX from your archives? We find that +(from your help file) EMTEX could be obtained on 3 1/2 disks. +But we prefer to down load here via ftp. Please let us +know if this is possible; how to do it and WHICH FILES +we should down load. In case, EMTEX is not availble, please +advise (even in that case) which files we should down load +so as to have a working TEX system. We have a POSTSCRIPT laser +printer and EPSON LQ2500. We would need drivers for these +(dvi2ps and dvi2eps) + +Thanking you, +yours sincerely +Chandan Mazumdar +(e-mail address: chandan@tifrvax.bitnet) + +------------------------------ + +Date: Sun, 01 May 1994 17:07:58 -0305 +From: olympiad@IREARN.EARN +Subject: TeX for VAX/VMS? + +How can I install TeX on VAX/VMS by tex-archive ? Please help me. + + Best regards, + H. Dehghani + +------------------------------ + +Date: Tue, 03 May 1994 10:35:00 +0100 +From: R."R." Allan Reese <R.A.Reese@uk.ac.hull.computer-centre> +Subject: Raising awareness + +I have a letter published in The Daily Telegraph today on the +subject of character sets and computers. My letter of course +named TeX. The Editor has unfortunately balked at the logo, +or at a name he didn't know, and has substituted "a character +text system" - whatever that means. + +- -- +(R.) Allan Reese Janet: r.a.reese@uk.ac.hull.ucc +Head of Applications Direct voice: +44 482 465296 +Computer Centre Voice messages: +44 482 465685 +Hull University Fax: +44 482 466441 +Hull HU6 7RX, U.K. + +------------------------------ + +Date: 03 May 1994 09:47:06 -0000 +From: N Mooljee <nkm@castle.edinburgh.ac.uk> +Subject: integral sign + +Can anyone advise me how to alter size of the integral sign INDEPENDENTLY +of the integrand in TeX/LateX ? + +Naresh Mooljee + +------------------------------ + +Date: Tue, 03 May 1994 10:31:46 -0000 +From: P.Abbott@aston.ac.uk +Subject: dvidvi + +There is a copy of dvidvi in the file dvidvi.sit.hqx + +in + +pub/archive/systems/mac/dvidvi.sit.hqx + +I have tried it with OzTeX 1.6 and cannot make it work. There are no instructio +ns. + +has anyone used it and made it wirk? If so please can you assist. + +Thanks + +peter + + +------------------------------ + +Date: Tue, 03 May 1994 15:53:02 +0000 +From: ZA9RA01 <W.Peel@manchester-metropolitan-university.ac.uk> +Subject: MetaPost + +Does anyone know if there is likely to be in the near future a public +domain "interpreter/compiler" under DOS or Unix for the MetaPost +programming language. I have retrieved a copy of the user's manual +from netlib@research.att.com and would like to try it out. + +Thanks + + Bill Peel + + Bill Peel | Computing Services +w.peel@mmu.ac.uk | Manchester Metropolitan University + | Chester Street, Manchester M1 5GD, England + +------------------------------ + + 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 18] +**************************************** |