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<title>UK TeX FAQ -- question label CD</title>
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<h3>The TeX collection</h3>
<p/>If you don&rsquo;t have access to the Internet, there are obvious
attractions to TeX collections on a disc.  Even those with net
access will find large quantities of TeX-related files to hand a
great convenience.
<p/>The TeX collection provides this, together with
ready-to-run TeX systems for various architectures.  Contents of
the collection are:
<ul>
<li> The TeX Live installation disc (a CD) provides TeX
  systems for use on GNU-Linux, MacOS/X and Win-32
  architectures;
<li> The TeX Live &lsquo;Live&rsquo; disc (a DVD) providing TeX for
  a wider range of architectures;
<li> MacTeX: an easy to install TeX system for MacOS/X, based
  on TeX Live, and including the 
  <a href="http://www.uoregon.edu/~koch/texshop/">texshop front-end</a>
  and other tools;
<li> ProTeXt: an easy to install TeX system for Windows, based
  on MiKTeX, and including an &lsquo;active&rsquo; document to guide
  installation; and
<li> A snapshot of CTAN.
</ul>
A fair number of national TeX User Groups, as well as TUG,
distribute copies to their members at no extra charge.  Some user
groups are also able to sell additional copies:
contact your local user group or <a href="FAQ-TUGstar.html">TUG</a>.
<p/>You may also download disc images from CTAN; the installation
disc, ProTeXt and MacTeX are all separately available.  Beware:
they are all pretty large downloads.
<p/>More details of the collection are available from its own
  <a href="http://www.tug.org/texcollection/">web page</a>
  on the TUG site.

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<dt><tt><i>MacTeX</i></tt><dd><a href="http://www.tex.ac.uk/www.tex.ac.uk  tex-archivesystems/mac/mactex/">systems/mac/mactex/</a>
<dt><tt><i>ProTeXt</i></tt><dd><a href="http://www.tex.ac.uk/www.tex.ac.uk  tex-archivesystems/win32/protext/">systems/win32/protext/</a>
<dt><tt><i>TeXlive install image</i></tt><dd><a href="http://www.tex.ac.uk/www.tex.ac.uk  tex-archivesystems/texlive/">systems/texlive/</a>
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<p/><p/><p/><p>This question on the Web: <a href="http://www.tex.ac.uk/cgi-bin/texfaq2html?label=CD">http://www.tex.ac.uk/cgi-bin/texfaq2html?label=CD</a>
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