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+%\usepackage{mflogo}
+\title{Plug and play CD}
+\author{Sebastian Rahtz}
+\begin{Article}
+GUTenberg and UKTUG, in collaboration with TUG and NTG, are producing
+a plug-and-play CD-ROM based on Thomas Esser's \textrm{te}\TeX{}
+distribution. It adheres to the TDS (\TeX{} Directory Structure) tree
+structure (see, for instance, TUGboat 16(4), pages 401--412).
+
+Presently Unix executables for the following platform/operating system
+combinations are included: Digital alpha-osf (2.0 and 3.2), Hewlett
+Packard hpux (9.01 and 10.01), Intel i386 bsdi2.0, freebsd (2.0.5 and
+2.1.0) netbsd (1.0 and 1.1), Intel i486 (linux and linuxaout), m68k
+(linux, linuxoldld, and nextstep3), mips (irix 5.2, 5.3 and ultrix4.4)
+IBM rs6000 (aix3.2 and aix4.1.1) Sparc Solaris (2.4 and 2.5) and Sunos
+4.1.3.
+
+As the CD-ROM uses the ISO 9660 standard, the platform-independent
+files can, in principle be read on all operating systems which are
+compatible with that format. To preserve the complete Unix/Posix file
+system information the file tree was recorded with the Rock Ridge
+extensions, so that long filenames are honoured. Some operating
+systems, most notably MS-DOS, do not support these extensions, so that
+only the ISO 9660 filenames are used, but with this limitation, the
+files are readable on all systems. At present the complete \LaTeX{}
+Dec. 1995, patch level 2 base and all contributed files are included,
+plus the most-used font families (CM, DC 1.2, TC, AMS, Euler, psnfss).
+We plan to publish an updated CD-ROM twice a year (more or less
+coordinated with new \LaTeX{} releases), and we hope to add more
+packages and fonts in the next issues.
+
+The complete source of the te\TeX{} package is included, which has the
+source of \TeX, \MF, and all the \TeX{} utilities. Documentation for
+all of the macro packages on the CD-ROM is included in DVI and PDF
+format, as well as the original source. A large fraction of the
+documentation has also been converted to HTML.
+
+The CD-ROM will be officially presented on May 29th in Nanterre
+(Paris), where GUTenberg organises a seminar on \TeX{} distributions.
+The CD will be available to members of \TeX\ user groups at \pounds15
+and to non-members at \pounds25, through the normal channels.
+
+
+\end{Article}
+