Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!clyde!bellcore!rutgers!mailrus!uwmcsd1!ig!agate!matt@cosmic.berkeley.edu From: matt@cosmic.berkeley.edu (Matt Austern) Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc Subject: Public domain TeX on the IBM PC. Message-ID: <13142@agate.BERKELEY.EDU> Date: 10 Aug 88 23:01:47 GMT Sender: usenet@agate.BERKELEY.EDU Reply-To: matt@cosmic.berkeley.edu (Matt Austern) Organization: UCB Physics Department Lines: 42 Thanks to all who responded to my request for information on public-domain TeX for the IBM PC. Here's what I've learned: (1) This topic is often discussed on comp.text. It's probably a better newsgroup than this one. Sorry. (2) On ucbvax (available through anonymous ftp) is the source for Common TeX, written in C. I've glanced at the source; it doesn't appear to be ported to the PC environment, so compiling it may require some fiddling. Guess this is my chance to see if the Microsoft C standard library is *really* the standard library. I was told by phr@WEB.berkeley.edu that Common TeX will run on the AT but not on the XT; I don't understand what the reason for that might be (memory segmentation problems, maybe?), but I'll see if I can hack things anyway. (3) The full TeX distribution (20M compressed!) is available from score.stanford.edu. Individual pieces (in particular, the source in web format) are available from labrea.stanford.edu. To convert the web programs to "standard" Pascal, use the utilities tangle and weave; these are available from simtel20.arpa. (pd1: