On Fri, 14 Feb 1997, Alexander Hayward wrote:

> The latex sets in the 1.1-alpha2 directory don't seem to work any more.

Indeed they don't.

> Is there some way I can compile support for the old format binaries in to 
> the kernel? Alternatively, has anyone recompiled latex (and tex)? Or 
> would I be better recompiling it myself?

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.

Good luck anyway, you should find someone on the list will help if you run
into any problems with either...

Ben.

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Department of Computer Science
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