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+ Welcome to "AmiWeb2c 2.1"
+
+
+ the complete installation of Donald Ervin Knuth's
+
+ TeX Engine, Release 3.14159
+
+ including standard TeX by D. E. Knuth,
+ e-TeX 2.0 by Peter Breitenlohner and Philip Taylor,
+ Omega 1.5 by Yannis Haralambous and John Plaice,
+ and PDFTeX 0.12 by Han The Thanh
+
+ MetaFont Engine, Release 2.718
+
+ together with Oren Patashnik's `BibTeX', Release 0.99c
+ and John Douglas Hobby's `MetaPost', Release 0.64
+ and Tomas Gerhard Rokicki's `DVIPS', Release 5.78
+ and more than a dozen utility programs
+
+
+ on the Amiga
+
+
+LEGALESE:
+
+The following copyright notice covers the files I wrote and the core
+system of AmiWeb2c created from them; for the convenience of users I
+added complete packages and selected parts of packages that might be
+useful in connection with AmiWeb2c; these additional parts are covered
+by the copyright of their respective authors and are not part of the
+core system of AmiWeb2c.
+
+Copyright (C) 1995, 1997 Andreas Scherer
+
+AmiWeb2c is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it
+under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
+the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or
+(at your option) any later version.
+
+AmiWeb2c is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but
+WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
+MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the
+GNU General Public License for more details.
+
+You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
+along with AmiWeb2c; if not, write to the Free Software Foundation,
+Inc., 675 Mass Ave, Cambridge, MA 02139, USA.
+
+
+INTRODUCTION:
+
+The native Amiga port of all these programs was done by Andreas Scherer
+on the basis of the complete "Web2c 7.2" Unix installation of the `TeX'
+system (see http://www.tug.org/web2c.html) as maintained by Olaf Weber,
+who took over from Karl Berry. Modifications and enhancements were
+introduced to make the implementation work on the Amiga with the
+SAS/C++ 6.58 compiler.
+
+What you get with `amiweb2c21.lha' is a stripped excerpt of the
+complete `Unix-TeX' system from
+
+ ftp://ftp.dante.de/tex-archive/systems/web2c/
+
+ported to the Amiga. Due to its total size of more than 30 megabytes
+of installed material, I decided to exclude everything that is publicly
+available from either AmiNet (e.g., ftp://ftp.informatik.rwth-aachen.de/
+pub/aminet/) or more likely from CTAN (Comprehensive TeX Archive Network;
+the German node is ftp://ftp.dante.de/tex-archive/), so in addition to
+the present distribution you will have to fetch several other packages
+before you can start for real.
+
+So why should you want to get `amiweb2c21.lha' at all? Because it
+contains a native port of the famous `texk' implementation of the TeX
+system for Unix, on which most of the installations are based.
+
+Included are (among others)
+
+ TeX 3.14159 (standard TeX, e-TeX, Omega, and PDFTeX)
+ MetaFont 2.718
+ BibTeX 0.99c
+ MetaPost 0.64
+ DVIPS 5.78
+
+and a lot of auxiliary tools and programs. The complete Unix-TeX system
+was ported directly from the Web2c 7.2 system, which already provides full
+(yet hidden) support for the Amiga. Necessary stuff for implementors is
+coming with this distribution.
+
+The contents of this archive is automatically installed at the
+appropriate places by either the command
+
+ $ lha x -a amiweb2c21.lha
+
+or the commands
+
+ $ gzip -d amiweb2c-2.1.tar.gz
+ $ tar xvf amiweb2c-2.1.tar
+
+depending on the source from where you fetched the distribution.
+
+Almost 11 (metric) megabytes will be extracted to the root directory
+`AmiWeb2c-2.1/'. Everything else has to be added in the directory
+structure below this top level. The bulk of either archive consists
+of the binaries for all programs created from the original Web2c sources.
+
+Detailed information about what else is needed and about how to install
+"AmiWeb2c 2.1" is given in "texmf/doc/amiga/README.amiweb2c".
+
+
+
+Enjoy!
+
+
+March 1998
+
+Andreas Scherer
+Rochusstraße 22-24
+52062 Aachen, Germany
+<andreas.scherer@pobox.com>