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Re: Installing LaTeX without pc, TeX for SunOS

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From: Piet van Oostrum
Date: Sat, 24 Feb 1990 19:34
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In article <2597@leah.Albany.Edu>, vs7036@leah (Vivek S.) writes:

	        Now is there a way by which I can compile Latex without
 `using the pascal compiler? Will a pascal to C translator do the trick?
 `The WEB-TO-C apparently does not make the pascal compiler superfluous.
 `
In article <5116@balu.UUCP>, ix@cosmo (Redaktion ix) writes:
 `Does anybody know, where to get a TeX for Sun3/50, running 
 `SunOS4.0.4.

The standard Unix TeX distribution from Washington State university,
Seattle, has web2c, a program to translate the pascal produced by tangle
into C. So you can install TeX without a pascal compiler.
-- 
Piet* van Oostrum, Dept of Computer Science, Utrecht University,
Padualaan 14, P.O. Box 80.089, 3508 TB Utrecht, The Netherlands.
Telephone: +31-30-531806   Uucp:   uunet!mcsun!hp4nl!ruuinf!piet
Telefax:   +31-30-513791   Internet:  piet@cs.ruu.nl   (*`Pete')
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From: piet@cs.ruu.nl (Piet van Oostrum)
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Subject: Re: Installing LaTeX without pc, TeX for SunOS
Keywords: LaTeX, SUN OS 4.0 , Pascal compiler,spark
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Date: 24 Feb 90 19:34:12 GMT
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