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Subj:	RE: Big Mem TeX for VMS

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From: Ted Nieland <@AAMRL.AF.MIL:TNIELAND@FALCON>
Subject: RE: Big Mem TeX for VMS
To: phri!marob!samperi@nyu.EDU, info-vax@kl.sri.COM
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>We have both the free DECUS TeX software, and the commercial Arbortext
>version of TeX. Both versions choke on complex (typical here) pages, due
>to stupid memory limitations. It was easy to port CTeX to VMS, and when
>compiled with the BIGG option, the memory limitation problems went away.
>Unfortunately, CTeX is much slower than DECUS/Arbortext TeX. This would be
>OK, but for the fact that we do not have a full set of pixel (or .GF) files,
>and METAFONT crashes due to that stupid memory limitation when we try to
>build missing pixel files. It's turning into a huge project to bring up
>a full functional TeX under VMS, with a complete list of pixel files.
>
>Could somebody suggest where a complete TeX implementation can be obtained
>for VMS, without the common (stupid) memory limitation, and with a complete
>set of pixel or .GF files? (GF files are sufficient, since we want to run
>all of our dvi files through PostScript filters, by means of dvi2ps.)
>
>It does not have to be free, but it has to work!
>
>Dominick Samperi
>Citicorp

The February 1989 and the new August 1989 releases of the DECUS TeX collection 
have BIG Memory version of TeX included.  The big memory version also have 
Adrian Clark's VMS Editor interface to TeX.  This version is located in the 
directory [TEX.TEX_EDITOR] in the distribution.

The August 1989 version of the DECUS TeX Colletion has been submitted to DECUS 
Library and to the National LUG Organization for distribution to the LUGs.  
It should be available to the LUGs by the end of August.  Attached is Library 
Abstract for this new version.

Ted Nieland
DECUS TeX Collection Editor

		DECUS TeX Collection
		   Abstract

The DECUS TeX Collection is based on the TeX Files stored at
SCORE.STANFORD.EDU and are available via ANONYMOUS FTP, plus additional
material collected from sources across the world.  Recipients of the DECUS
VAX/VMS TeX distribution need not have the compilers, since executable
versions of most programs are included on the tape. 

The DECUS TeX tape includes all source programs as well as object code. The
distribution contains five directory trees: 

[.000_INSTRUCT]   Contains the instructions for installing the TeX collection.
[.TEX]		  Contains all the material needed to get TeX up and 
		  running on your system.  The material includes TeX, LaTeX, 
		  METAFONT, AmSTeX, TeXsis, BIBTeX, PiCTeX, DVI Drivers, 
		  RNOTOTEX, a spelling checker that understands TeX/LaTeX, 
		  and DVITOVDU.

[.TEX_FONTS] 	  All the fonts for TeX.  Designed for a LN03.

[.TEX_SOURCE1]
[.TEX_SOURCE2]	  Contains the source code for everything in saveset 2, 
		  plus additional material such as: UNIX Material, TeX 
		  and Screen Previewers for PCs, TeX and Previewer
		  for MACINTOSH, GloTeX, previewers for VAXStations 
		  (Both VWS and DECWindows), LSE Templates for TeX/LaTeX 
		  and BIBTeX, Trip and Trap Tests for TeX and METAFONT, 
		  and additional DVI Driver material including Postscript 
		  LaTeX material for VMS.

Recommendations:

Get The TeXBook by Donald Knuth and LaTeX: A Document Preparation System by
Leslie Lamport as the minimal documentation for the system. Knuth's five volume
set Computers and Typesetting is highly recommended.  The five volume set
includes The TeXBook and The METAFONTBook.  The Joy of TeX is the documentation
for AmSTeX. The PiCTeX Manual will be needed if you wish to use PiCTeX.  


Other Included Items

The TeX Collection includes the other TeX related individual submissions 
from the DECUS Library.  These submissions are:

V00135	DVI to VDU: A TeX Page Previewer Program
V00171	LaTeX Templates \& Help files for LSE
V00179  DEPROC: LaTeX for the DECUS Proceedings
V00294  WEB Pack
V00301  DVIOUT - DVI Output Driver
V00399  DVI2PS


Supported devices

The following output devices are suppoorted by this version of TeX:


-  DEC LN03 (requires a RAM Cartridge) [DVItoLN03 or LNTex]
-  DEC LN03 Plus (uses bitmaps) [DVIL3P]
-  DEC LA75 [DVIl75]
-  Postscript (LPS40, Apple LaserWriter, LN03S) [DVIALW or DVI2PS]
-  HP Laserjet [DVIJET]
-  HP Laserjet Plus [DVIJEP]
-  Cannon Engine Laserprinter [DVICAN]
-  EPSON Printer [DVIEPS]
-  Printronix Printer [DVIPRX]
-  Okidata Pacemark 2410 (72 or 144 DPI) [DVIOKI]
-  VT terminals, Regis Terminals, Tektronix Terminals [DVItoVDU]
-  VAXStations running VWS [DVIDIS]
-  DEC Windows [XDVI]
-  Version 3.10 BBN BitGraph terminal [DVIBIT]
-  Golden Dawn Golden Laser 100 printer [DVIGD]
-  Imagen imPRESS-language laser printer family [DVIIMP]          
-  Apple Imagewriter 72 or 144 dpi printers [DVIM72 or DVIMAC]
-  MPI Sprinter 72 dpi printer [DVIMPI]
-  Toshiba P-1351 180 dpi printer [DVITOS]
-  Generic Output [DVI2TTY]


Update Information

The August 1989 DECUS TeX collection has updated the following items:
TeX (now 2.991), LaTeX & SLiTeX (now 2.09 <24 May 1989>), TeXsis,
the LaTeX style collection, DVItoLN03, TeX for MS-DOS, and TeX for UNIX 
(includes TeXx 2.8.6 and the new SPIDERWEB).

The following items are new with this collection:  DVI2TTY, OZTeX (TeX 
for the Macintosh), XDVI (DECWindows Previewer for VMS), DVIOUT, WEB Pack, 
and DVI2PS for VMS.


Collection Information

This TeX Collection has been done for the DECUS Library and the DECUS 
Language and Tools SIG (L&T) Public Domain working group.  The material is by 
various authors.  Suggestions for additions to the collection are accepted. 
Please send all suggestions to the Collection Editor.


