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+*********************************************************************
+This is the "readme" file for tx, version 1, a menuing system for TeX
+*********************************************************************
+
+This is "tx", a very simple menu designed to facilitate the processing of
+TeX documents on a pc. A small window appears on the top right of the screen
+offering the user the different alternatives about running TeX, viewing or
+printing the document, editing it, etc. The menu is completely configurable
+by the user.
+
+INSTALLATION
+============
+
+(1) Edit the sample configuration file "tx.cnf" with the entries and
+commands you want. If you have any doubts as to the syntax of the
+configuration file, you may take a look at the explanations in "tx.doc".
+
+(2) Copy "tx.exe" and your version of "tx.cnf" to a directory in your
+search path for executables. For instance, if you are using the latest
+emTeX version, this could be "c:\emtex\bin".
+
+(3) You are all set. Move to a directory where you have (or want to create)
+a TeX document and type "tx". Once you are in the menu, you need to specify
+(or visually choose) the name of the TeX document.
+
+License: This program is free. It is licensed to users under the
+terms of the GNU General Public License. Read the file "copying"
+for details about the licensing agreement. The program uses the
+"spawno" library, written by Ralf Brown, to swap out of dos memory
+when executing other programs. See the file "spawno.doc" for details.
+
+You can send any comments about the program to me. I wrote this
+program for myself, and am making it publically available just
+in case somebody may find it useful. Please note that there will
+be no further releases unless some serious bug is found, because
+the program as it is now suits all my needs.
+
+Ricard Torres (torres@upf.es).
+Released in April 1995.
+
+Note: If you want to modify or recompile the source, you will find
+it in the directory "src". For instance, you can change the colors,
+that are defined in the file "tx.c", or the text of the messages,
+which you will find in the file "txdefs.h". The program is written
+in c for the Borland compilers. Included is also a makefile for
+the djgpp port of gcc. The resulting executable takes up a lot of
+dos memory, because it is loaded by the dos extender go32.
+
+History:
+=======
+The program has been used by a number of people for a few years. The changes
+it has lately undergone are mostly of little relevance, except for the use
+it now makes of Ralf Brown's spawn replacement, that frees most of the dos
+memory occupied by the program. By now, it should be pretty stable. However,
+the version originally distributed in CTAN had a small mistake that
+prevented it from reading a working file name from the command line. This
+has now been corrected, and the resulting new version (which has some other
+merely cosmetic changes) we label as version 1 (hoping it will be the last).