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In <HARDY.93Jan8194056@golem.ps.uci.edu> hardy@golem.ps.uci.edu (Meinhard E. Mayer (Hardy)) writes:

>In article <1993Jan9.005258.28116@news.acns.nwu.edu> tcarr@casbah.acns.nwu.edu (Thomas Carr) writes:

>???   A simple and probably stupid question.
>???   Will NeXTTeX 3.0 work only on NS3.0?  I'm still on NS2.1.
>???
>???   How can I get a copy of NeXTTeX, version "which ever one runs on my
>???   machine?"  
>There was a pre-release version of TeX on labrea.stanford.edu, with 
>some of the features of the 3.0 release included. I just checked with
>ange-ftp and they are still there:
>    -rw-r--r--  1 root     102        475903 Jun 27  1992 nexttex.tar.Z
>    -rw-r--r--  1 root     102        588659 Jun 26  1992 nexttex-alpha.tar.Z
>    -r--rw-r--  1 root     102         32068 Jun 11  1992 dvidvi2.tar.Z
>    -r--r--r--  1 root     102        119773 Apr 20  1992 texview-a9.tar.Z
>also:
>    -rw-r--r--  1 519      fsuser     690176 Nov 17 04:23 dvips5497.tar.Z

>The nexttex-alpha is the one containing most of the enhancements.

Just to clarify here:  (1)  nexttex-alpha contains ENHANCEMENTS to NeXT-TeX
2.0.  It DOES NOT contain all of NeXT-TeX 2.0, which you need to install
first.  It contains texview-a9, so grabbing that is redundant.  (2)  Because
the versions of TeXview and dvips became "wedded" during the development of 
NeXT-TeX 3.0, grabbing texview-a9 by itself does you no good as it will
not run with the old version of dvips you have, and it ALSO DOES NOT run
with dvips5497.  DO NOT grab 5497 unless you are running NeXTstep 3.0
(and if you are running NS 3.0 then definitely go get 5497 because it 
fixes several minor bugs --- and perhaps a few not so minor --- in the 
NeXT-TeX 3.0 release).

Hope that helps a bit.

Tom