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From: mjl@ut-emx.UUCP (mjl)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: VLT docs on ucbvax are bad
Summary: vlt docs
Message-ID: <6115@ut-emx.UUCP>
Date: 18 Sep 88 07:54:24 GMT
References: <10258@s.ms.uky.edu>
Organization: The University of Texas at Austin, Austin, Texas
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In article <10258@s.ms.uky.edu>, sean@ms.uky.edu (Sean Casey) writes:
> 
> The vlt docs on ucbvax (I don't know who put them there) are bad. The
> dvi file has no postamble. Yes, I used binary mode in ftp. Yes, I really
> know what I am doing.
> 
> Could we get the TeX sources for the doc file posted there? That way if
> we don't have a font that the dvi file demands, I can change things a
> bit. I also might want to use a style file to fill up more of the page
> (if it's in LaTeX, that is).

The docs are in TeX, and there are a few problems in getting it:
(1) although the TeX docs are available (from bix, I have them), a macro
package from Stanford was used.  Thus the tex file is practically useless.
I don't know how big this macro file is, maybe I could talk Willy (Langeveld)
into posting it.
(2) the .dvi file you mentioned (I think it originally came from me) may
have suffered some transmission damage before I got it.  I was able to
print it even though some pages came out as garbage -- these I could reprint
individually.  I've been trying to get an intact version but the person I
got it from had a reproduction in the family and is pretty busy.
(3) the ASCII docs are always a possibility, but Willy says that it's got
some typos (he isn't responsible -- someone chopped all the tex formatting
out of the main doc file to create it).

It would be best to solve this problem by getting both the necessary macro
package and an intact .dvi file for the ftp archive, and I'll try to pursue
this.  Meanwhile, interested users should contact Willy at
	WGLP09@SLACVM.BITNET
for copies of the manual (I can also provide copies, but am a bit slow at
answering my mail sometimes).


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