Re: Can pc users benefit from DosTex? -> No

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From: Rolf Lindgren
Date: Fri, 07 Aug 1992 17:18

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In article <1992Aug6.203536.17392@maths.tcd.ie> tim@maths.tcd.ie (Timothy Murphy) writes:
>   >IMHO, the minimum requirement for TeX under DOS is a 486. For a 400-page
>   >book, the minimum to satisfy my personal level of patience is a DECStation
>   >3100.
>
>   This is probably an impertinence,
>   but I wonder if you made use of the \includeonly facility
>   to print the book chapter-by-chapter.

Oh yes, but you do need to run through the whole of the book a couple of
times to get the table of contents, don't you? Also, it wasn't _my_ book...



	BTW, I'm not insulted easily. 
--
       Rolf Lindgren           |       "The opinions expressed above are
       616 Bjerke Studentheim  |        not necessarily those of anyone"
       N-0589 OSLO 5           |           rolfl.lindgren@usit.uio.no

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Subject: Re: Can pc users benefit from DosTex? -> No
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