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- Short: Unix TeX for the Amiga.
- Files: amiweb2c21.lha, amiweb2c21.readme
- Type: /text/tex
- Author: Andreas Scherer et.al.
- Uploader: <andreas.scherer@pobox.com>
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- Welcome to "AmiWeb2c 2.1"
-
-
- the complete installation of Donald Ervin Knuth's
-
- TeX Engine, Release 3.14159
-
- including standard TeX by D. E. Knuth,
- e-TeX 2.0 by Peter Breitenlohner and Philip Taylor,
- Omega 1.5 by Yannis Haralambous and John Plaice,
- and PDFTeX 0.12 by Han The Thanh
-
- MetaFont Engine, Release 2.718
-
- together with Oren Patashnik's `BibTeX', Release 0.99c
- and John Douglas Hobby's `MetaPost', Release 0.64
- and Tomas Gerhard Rokicki's `DVIPS', Release 5.78
- and more than a dozen utility programs
-
-
- on the Amiga
-
-
- LEGALESE:
-
- The following copyright notice covers the files I wrote and the core
- system of AmiWeb2c created from them; for the convenience of users I
- added complete packages and selected parts of packages that might be
- useful in connection with AmiWeb2c; these additional parts are covered
- by the copyright of their respective authors and are not part of the
- core system of AmiWeb2c.
-
- Copyright (C) 1995, 1997 Andreas Scherer
-
- AmiWeb2c is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it
- under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
- the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or
- (at your option) any later version.
-
- AmiWeb2c is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but
- WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
- MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the
- GNU General Public License for more details.
-
- You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
- along with AmiWeb2c; if not, write to the Free Software Foundation,
- Inc., 675 Mass Ave, Cambridge, MA 02139, USA.
-
-
- INTRODUCTION:
-
- The native Amiga port of all these programs was done by Andreas Scherer
- on the basis of the complete "Web2c 7.2" Unix installation of the `TeX'
- system (see http://www.tug.org/web2c.html) as maintained by Olaf Weber,
- who took over from Karl Berry. Modifications and enhancements were
- introduced to make the implementation work on the Amiga with the
- SAS/C++ 6.58 compiler.
-
- What you get with `amiweb2c21.lha' is a stripped excerpt of the
- complete `Unix-TeX' system from
-
- ftp://ftp.dante.de/tex-archive/systems/web2c/
-
- ported to the Amiga. Due to its total size of more than 30 megabytes
- of installed material, I decided to exclude everything that is publicly
- available from either AmiNet (e.g., ftp://ftp.informatik.rwth-aachen.de/
- pub/aminet/) or more likely from CTAN (Comprehensive TeX Archive Network;
- the German node is ftp://ftp.dante.de/tex-archive/), so in addition to
- the present distribution you will have to fetch several other packages
- before you can start for real.
-
- So why should you want to get `amiweb2c21.lha' at all? Because it
- contains a native port of the famous `texk' implementation of the TeX
- system for Unix, on which most of the installations are based.
-
- Included are (among others)
-
- TeX 3.14159 (standard TeX, e-TeX, Omega, and PDFTeX)
- MetaFont 2.718
- BibTeX 0.99c
- MetaPost 0.64
- DVIPS 5.78
-
- and a lot of auxiliary tools and programs. The complete Unix-TeX system
- was ported directly from the Web2c 7.2 system, which already provides full
- (yet hidden) support for the Amiga. Necessary stuff for implementors is
- coming with this distribution.
-
- The contents of this archive is automatically installed at the
- appropriate places by either the command
-
- $ lha x -a amiweb2c21.lha
-
- or the commands
-
- $ gzip -d amiweb2c-2.1.tar.gz
- $ tar xvf amiweb2c-2.1.tar
-
- depending on the source from where you fetched the distribution.
-
- Almost 11 (metric) megabytes will be extracted to the root directory
- `AmiWeb2c-2.1/'. Everything else has to be added in the directory
- structure below this top level. The bulk of either archive consists
- of the binaries for all programs created from the original Web2c sources.
-
- Detailed information about what else is needed and about how to install
- "AmiWeb2c 2.1" is given in "texmf/doc/amiga/README.amiweb2c".
-
-
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- Enjoy!
-
-
- March 1998
-
- Andreas Scherer
- Rochusstraße 22-24
- 52062 Aachen, Germany
- <andreas.scherer@pobox.com>
-