Subject: Re: Latex.
To: Ben Strawson <B.Strawson@cs.ucl.ac.uk>
From: Alexander Hayward <alexander.hayward@lady-margaret-hall.oxford.ac.uk>
List: port-arm32
Date: 02/14/1997 18:39:25
On Fri, 14 Feb 1997, Ben Strawson wrote:
> Many people (including myself) have said we would upload sets, but noone
> has yet.  My excuse is that I am reorganising my partitions at the moment,
> and my RiscBSD bit is moving.
> 
> You are therefore much better compiling it yourself, especially since you
> have a JaNET connection.  You need to go to ftp://ftp.tex.ac.uk/ and get
> one of the distributions.  I used the file in
> /ctan/tex-archive/systems/unix/web2c/web2c named unixtex.ftp which will
> tell you how to do the web distribution.  I think someone else (Markus?) 
> recommended using the teTeX distribution which is in
> /ctan/tex-archive/systems/unix/teTeX and may be better - I haven't tried
> it myself though.

Yeah, I've grabbed teTeX, which appears to contain a whole load of other 
things as well. I'm compiling it at the moment. Its been compiling all 
afternoon :-)

I'll seehow I get on. I'll try and make some sets out of them if it goes 
alright... (and I have time).