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rolfl@karl.uio.no (Rolf Lindgren) 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.

Eg here is a short example

=================== GF.tex =====================
\documentstyle[12pt,a4,drop,boxedminipage,GF]{report}

\let\io=\includeonly

\typein{Enter \string\includeonly\space to TeX part.}

\begin{document}

%\makeindex   %% Use to create index file.

\renewcommand{\thepage}{\arabic{chapter}--\arabic{page}}

\include{00}
%\tableofcontents
\include{01}
\include{02}
\include{03}
\include{04}

\end{document}
================================================

The chapters are called 01.tex, etc.

The marvelous thing is, LaTeX remembers page-numbers, theorem numbers, etc
from the previous run.
So one can correct and print chapter 1,
by giving the command "latex GF"
and responding to the query "Enter ... part" with

\io{01}

Then next time answer \io{02} to output chapter 2, etc.

With apologies to TeXperts ...

-- 
Timothy Murphy  
e-mail: tim@maths.tcd.ie
tel: +353-1-2842366
s-mail: School of Mathematics, Trinity College, Dublin 2, Ireland