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Some Questions

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From: Jerry Kuch
Date: Wed, 29 Jul 1992 00:23
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Hi.  Many of these questions are probably FAQs, but if someone could email
me some quick replies, it would be greatly appreciated.

Some people in my workplace have been asking for information on how to 
deal with ".tex" files.  The workplace is strongly PC dominated, with a few
low-powered Intel based Xenix machines.

The questions:

	1) Are there any good PostScript previewers/printer dump utilities
           for MS-DOS available through shareware, preferably by FTP?

        2) What is a good PC based (shareware) TeX package?  Most of the
           commercial ones I've seen have looked pretty rough compared to
           the Radical Eye versions of the Amiga and the NeXT... nothing
           wonderful is wanted, just something adequate.

So far the best solution I've been able to suggest to the few people who need
to print TeX files (without learning about TeX itself...sigh) in a fascistly
MS Word based environment has been for me to compile their stuff at home, 
and upload it to the Xenix machines at work, for dvips'ing...

Any suggestions?

-- 
Jerry Kuch (t-gerldk@microsoft.com) | "Sic Gorgianus Allos Subjectatus Nunc."
  "I was wrong to play God.  Life is precious, not a thing to be toyed with.
   Now take out that brain and flush it down the toilet." - Montgomery Burns
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From: kuch@reed.edu (Jerry Kuch)
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Subject: Some Questions
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Date: 29 Jul 92 00:23:16 GMT
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