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mccauley@ecn.purdue.edu (Darrell McCauley) writes:

>[Reposted to comp.sys.sun.misc, followups still to comp.text.tex]

>In article <DENG.92Aug7155417@dd-ap.rhic.bnl.gov>, deng@dd-ap.rhic.bnl.gov (dp) writes:

>|> I am looking for a ready-to-run TeX3.14 too on a sparc station (IPX), is
>|> there a place that I can ftp?

Yes, byron.u.washington.edu. Contains the latest version (3.14) of TeX
and the other packages such as Latex and so on.

>If anyone has any information, please post.  It's been a while since
>I've compiled TeX, but is everything completely relocatable for sun4
>architecture (the way that it is compiled "out of the box")?  I plan 
>to get a Sun soon and was wondering... if I just copied everything from 
>another source, would defining these environment variables:
> BIBINPUTS GFFONTS MFBASES MFINPUTS MFPOOL PKFONTS TEXFORMATS TEXINPUTS
> TEXPOOL TEXFONTS VFFONTS MFINPUTS MFINPUTS MFBASES MFBASES MFPOOL
> MFPOOL TEXCONFIG
>avoid all problems? Could a binary editor be used to change the 
>default directories in virmf, virtex, & dvips without messing things up?

The environment variables should do the job.

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