On Fri, 14 Feb 1997, Jochen Scharrlach wrote:

> > 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
> 
> Or to ftp.dante.de or to any other mirror of CTAN ;)

Indeed - the world is your oyster as they say :-)

> > /ctan/tex-archive/systems/unix/teTeX and may be better - I haven't tried
> > it myself though.
> 
> I am using it on Linux and HP-UX and I am really impressed! A
> configuration tool, *working* installation tools, a complete and
> well-configured set of the latest TeX-tools and so on.

In that case it looks as though we should be using teTeX.

Ben.

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Department of Computer Science
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