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-[unixtex.ftp: 11 November 1995]
-
-The master version of this file is on ftp.cs.umb.edu [158.121.104.33]
-in pub/tex/unixtex.ftp. Mail kb@cs.umb.edu with comments or questions.
-
-=========================================================================
- Consider joining the TeX Users Group (TUG):
- support the maintenance and development of the programs you retrieve.
- Send membership request to: tug@tug.org.
-=========================================================================
-
- GENERAL INSTRUCTIONS
-
-... for Unix sites wanting to install (plain) TeX, LaTeX (2e), BibTeX,
-Metafont, and DVI processors for any of the X window system,
-PostScript, and/or the PCL language in the HP LaserJet.
-
-The files mentioned below are available from any of the following:
-
- Host Internet address TeX root dir
- ---- ---------------- ------------
- ftp.shsu.edu 192.92.115.10 /tex-archive
- ftp.tex.ac.uk 134.151.44.19 /tex-archive
- ftp.dante.de 128.69.1.12 /tex-archive
-
- For additional ftp sites, get /README.mirrors from one of the above or
- finger ctan@ftp.shsu.edu.
-
- These instructions use non-generic features of FTP supported by the
- hosts above. For details, get:
- /README.archive-features
- /README.site-commands
-
-The /tex-archive/help and /tex-archive/documentation directories on
-these hosts have much additional documentation on all aspects of TeX. If
-you don't know (for example) what Metafont is, or the relationship of
-LaTeX to TeX, look there.
-
-
-Retrieving a basic set of input files and fonts:
------------------------------------------------
-
-ftp> cd /tex-archive/systems/web2c
-ftp> bi [set binary mode]
-ftp> get lib.tar.gz [unpacks into texmf; 2.8MB->11.5MB]
-
- This file contains a minimal collection of fonts (TFM files only,
- and only for Computer Modern, DC, LaTeX, Pandora, and the free
- PostScript fonts), base (La)TeX macros, MF macros, and BibTeX files
- -- enough to get started. The AMS fonts and macros are included.
- The LaTeX release may be out of date; for the latest, and for
- additional LaTeX packages; investigate /tex-archive/macros/latex.
-
- lib.tar.gz unpacks into a directory named `texmf', which you will
- want in your equivalent of /usr/local/lib -- whatever you will
- define as your $(datadir) in the Makefiles.
-
- The organization of the archive was debated at great length. We hope
- it will be useful. If you don't like our organization, feel free to
- move the files around as you see fit, not forgetting to redefine the
- search paths and installation directories. The Makefiles,
- kpathsea/HIER, kpathsea/paths.h.in, and web2c/README (``Directory
- hierarchies'') have more information. The organization will
- change to conform to the standard TeX directory structure
- promulgated by the TUG Working Group when the TDS is released.
-
- You must decide on your directory structure *before* doing the
- compilations, since you must specify default search paths, and
- since by default the web2c Makefile tries to create the basic .fmt
- and .base files, which require the .{tex,mf,tfm} input files.
-
-
-Retrieving web2c (that is, TeX, Metafont, and friends):
-------------------------------------------------------
-
-Still in /tex-archive/systems/web2c:
-
-ftp> get web.tar.gz [Knuth's WEB sources for TeX, MF, & family:
- unpacks into ./web2c-<version>; 1.2MB->4MB]
-ftp> get web2c.tar.gz [WEB-to-C source: also unpacks into ./web2c-<version>
- .75MB->2.7K]
-
- You must retrieve and unpack *both* web.tar.gz and web2c.tar.gz.
-
- The web2c distribution uses an older version of the path-searching
- library than the drivers below. For an interim patch, get the
- latest ftp.cs.umb.edu:pub/tex/web2c.kpathsea-2.*.help file, and
- read it. (I'm working on the next release of web2c as hard as I
- can, really.) The two versions can coexist; by using the web2c
- distribution as it stands, you merely lose the features added to
- kpathsea over the last year or so.
-
-
-Retrieving device drivers:
--------------------------
-
- For an X window system previewer (xdvik):
-ftp> cd /tex-archive/dviware/xdvik
-ftp> get xdvik.tar.gz [unpacks into ./xdvik-<version>; .5MB->1.8MB]
-
- For a DVI-to-PostScript translator (dvipsk):
-ftp> cd /tex-archive/dviware/dvipsk
-ftp> get dvipsk.tar.gz [unpacks into ./dvipsk-<version>; .7MB->2.7MB]
-
- For a DVI-to-PCL (HP LaserJet) translator (dviljk):
-ftp> cd /tex-archive/dviware/dviljk
-ftp> get dviljk.tar.gz [unpacks into ./dviljk-<version>; .6MB->3MB]
-
-ftp> quit [end ftp session]
-
-
-Compilation and installation:
-----------------------------
-
-Each of these packages -- web2c, xdvik, dvipsk, dviljk -- contains its
-own installation instructions. It is possible to build all the programs
-in a single make (see the web2c.kpathsea-*.help file), but it is simpler
-to make them separately.
-
-Compile web2c first (i.e.,, the material in both web.tar.gz and
-web2c.tar.gz, unpacked, possibly patched for the most recent kpathsea --
-see above, under `retrieving web2c'). For an overview,
-
- ./web2c-<version>/README
- ./web2c-<version>/kpathsea/INSTALL
- ./web2c-<version>/web2c/README
- ./web2c-<version>/web2c/INSTALL
-
-The INSTALL files are your guides to installation.
-At the simplest, you do configure && make && make install at the top level.
-
-Remember to set up your texmf directory hierarchy before embarking on
-your compilation (see `For a basic set of input files and fonts' above).
-
-After installation, if basic input files such as plain.tex aren't being
-found, or if the file searching is very slow, read kpathsea/INSTALL from
-one of the *k driver distributions. (This is much more recent than
-kpathsea/INSTALL from web2c.)
-
-All installation processes require careful attention to detail, and
-knowledge of your system. Festina lente -- make haste slowly -- and you
-improve your chances of success.
-
-ftp.cs.umb.edu:pub/tex/*.help describe some common problems with the
-current version of web2c. Here's some more:
-
--- Contrary to what the web2c installation instructions imply, you must use
- configure --prefix=/your/tex/root
-instead of editing the prefix in the Makefile(s). (Editing does work in
-some cases, but not all.)
-
--- configure does not always guess the type of yytext properly; the
-symptom will be compiler errors involving yytext. Replace the line
-`DECLARE_YYTEXT' in web2c-6.1/web2c/web2c.h with the right thing. See
-web2c.yytext.help.
-
--- If the compiler complains about something involving foil_x_wchar_t, try
- make CFLAGS="-g -DNO_FOIL_X_WCHAR_T" (for web2c); or
- make CFLAGS="-g -DFOIL_X_WCHAR_T" (for everything else).
-
--- I messed up and declared alloca in web2c/web2c/web2c.h. Just delete
-the declaration. ftp.cs.umb.edu:pub/tex/web2c.alloca.help does this.
-
--- make clean removes *.pool in web2c/tex and web2c/mf. Use make
-distclean or make mostlyclean instead. Or edit tex/Makefile and
-mf/Makefile to remove *.pool at distclean instead of clean.
-ftp.cs.umb.edu:pub/tex/web2c.pool.help does this. (You must apply this
-patch before web2c.kpathsea-2.6.help.)
-
-
-Distribution on tape and CD/ROM:
--------------------------------
-
-For TeX on a single tape (4mm DAT or QIC-24), ordering information is
-available from unixtex@u.washington.edu. A distribution fee
-of US$210.00 is requested to cover administrative costs.
-
-The Free Software Foundation distributes the minimal TeX system
-described here on CD/ROM. Write gnu@prep.ai.mit.edu or finger
-fsf@prep.ai.mit.edu for info.
-
-The 4allTeX CD-ROM comes from the NTG, the Dutch-speaking TeX user
-group. Email ntg@nic.surfnet.nl, or see http://ei0.ei.ele.tue.nl/ntg/.
-
-The Prime Time TeXcetera CD-ROM is a copy of CTAN; email ptf@ctcl.com or
-see http://www.ptf.com/ptf/.
-
-Walnut Creek has a TeX CD. Email info@cdrom.com or see
-http://www.cdrom.com:/titles/tex.html.
-
-Other organizations may provide TeX on a CD/ROM, but I do not know the
-details to include them here. (Please inform me if you do.)
-
-
-Precompiled Unix TeX executables:
---------------------------
-
-I recommend the teTeX distribution for precompiled binaries or if you
-want to retrieve a ready-made system instead of building your own. It's
-available from CTAN hosts in systems/unix/tetex.
-
-If you get these binaries, you do not need to get web.tar.gz,
-web2c.tar.gz, or the other source distributions.
-
-
-If you do not have GNU's gunzip utility, you will need to retrieve and
-install gzip.
-
-ftp> cd /tex-archive/tools/info-zip
-ftp> get gzip-1.2.4.tar
-
-gzip does a better job of compression than standard Unix compress, and
-it is (as far as is known) patent-free. It is illegal to use Unix
-compress in the USA, because it infringes a software patent. Write to
-the League for Programming Freedom <lpf@uunet.uu.net> for information
-about fighting the new software monopolies.
-
-
-Acknowledgements:
-----------------
-
-The three main sites listed above are part of the Comprehensive TeX Archive
-Network (CTAN) -- the result of cooperative work among members of TUG,
-DANTE [German-speaking TeX Users Group], and UKTUG [U.K. TeX Users Group],
-under the leadership of George Greenwade, Chair for TUG's Technical
-Working Group on TeX Archive Guidelines <ctan@shsu.edu>.
-
-Special thanks to George Greenwade for establishing the CTAN site at
-Sam Houston State University (US); to Rainer Schoepf, Barbara Burr,
-and members of DANTE for the CTAN site in Heidelberg (Germany); and to
-Sebastian Rahtz for the CTAN site in Cambridge (UK).
-
-unixtex.ftp was conceived and created by a wonderful person (not the
-current maintainer!) who wishes to remain electronically anonymous.