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    <H1>Distribution</H1>
    
    <H2>Copyright</H2>
    
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      <span class=ite>iTe</span> 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.
      
      <span class=ite>iTe</span> is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but
      
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      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.
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      You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public
      License along with this program; if not, write to the
      Free Software Foundation, Inc., 59 Temple Place, Suite 330,
      Boston, MA 02111-1307, USA.
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    <H2><a name="requirements">System Requirements</a></H2>
    
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      Because <span class=ite>iTe</span> is written in the four interpreted languages
      <EM>Emacs-lisp</EM>, <EM>PostScript</EM>, T<SMALL>E</SMALL>X and <EM>Perl</EM>, it is platform independent.
      All of the following required tools are preinstalled on many Unix systems, but are also available as binaries
      for both Unix and MS-Windows:
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      <LI>A T<SMALL>E</SMALL>X installation.
	Go to <a href="http://www.ctan.org">CTAN</a> to get binaries and sources;
      <LI><TT>Emacs</TT> or <TT>XEmacs</TT> version 19 and higher;
      <LI><TT>dvips</TT>, the dvi to ps translator by <a href="http://www.radicaleye.com">www.radicaleye.com</a>.
	This software normally comes with the T<SMALL>E</SMALL>X installation;
      <LI><TT>gs</TT> aka <a href="http://www.ghostscript.com/">GhostScript</a>,
	the postscript interpreter by Aladdin Enterprises;
      <li>Perl. Go to <a href="http://www.cpan.org">CPAN</a> to get binaries and sources. 
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    <H2>Compatibility</H2>

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      <span class=ite>iTe</span> was successfully tested on the following platforms:
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	<th>Operating System</th>
	<th>Editor</TD>
	<th>dvips(k)</th>
	<th>GhostScript</th>
	<th>Perl</th>
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	<TD>Suse Linux 9.2</TD>
	<TD>XEmacs 21.4<br/>
	    GNU Emacs 21.3.1
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	<TD>5.92</TD>
	<TD>7.07.1</TD>
	<TD>5.8.5</TD>
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	<TD>MS Windows 98/XP</TD>
	<TD>XEmacs 21.4</TD>
	<TD>5.86</TD>
	<TD>7.04</TD>
	<TD>5.6 (IndigoPerl)</TD>
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    <p>
      Previous versions of <span class=ite>iTe</span> were successfully tested on <tt>mips-sgi-irix</tt> and <tt>sparc-sun-solaris</tt>.
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    <div id='TIMESTAMP' style='font-size:small'><hr/>Last modified by <A HREF='http://www.decatur.de/wolfgang'>Wolfgang K&uuml;hn</a> on Mar 27 2005</div>
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