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Article #4263UNDUMP and new version of StTeX available
From: Jwahar R. Bammi
Date: Fri, 22 Sep 1989 05:55
Date: Fri, 22 Sep 1989 05:55
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A new version of my CommonTeX port to the St, StTeX (previously
made available on dsrgsun.ces.cwru.edu and on the terminator archive)
is now available for anonymous FTP from dsrgsun.ces.cwru.edu [129.22.16.2].
Apart from a few cleanups, slight improvement in performance, the biggest
new feature in this distribution is the new utility undump for TOS. using
undump, you can build TeX and LaTeX executables from virtex, that have
the .fmt preloaded. What this means is that startup is about a bizillion
times faster than the typical `virtex &lplain foo' route. Undump
can be used to undump other applications too that take a long time
to initialize (edguer please can we have an undumped GnuEmacs now!).
The following files are availble in the directory ~ftp/pub/atari/StTeX
StTeXbin.zoo binaries only (configured for a 1M ST)
StTeXmac.zoo macros and .fmt files
StTeXsrc.zoo complete sources for TeX and utils, including undump
StTeXtfm.zoo font metric files
undump.zoo undump source and binary only
also in the directory are (thanks Robert for the wonderful program!)
showdvi.zoo previewer by Robert Stabl (unido!unipas!stabl)
recently posted in comp.binaries.atari.st
showdvifonts.zoo fairly complete set of font libraries for showdvi
please remeber to download in binary mode. to extract files use
zoo x //. foo.zoo
If you dont have zoo, it is also available in ~ftp/pub/atari/zoo.ttp
and ~ftp/pub/atari/zoo.zoo.
enjoy,
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