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I am trying to print the documentation for the FLOAT styles and they require a
file TUGBOAT.COM.  I have TUGBOAT.STY and TUGBOAT.DOC from INFOTEX (SHSU), but
am unaware of TUGBOAT.COM.  Does anyone know where I can find it?

Second problem.  I have been printing the documentation for the latest of the
FM and RS files for DOCSTRIP and all the other nice programs in the Mainz
series. DOCSTRIP.DRV printed nicely in 42 pages - took about 5 min to LaTeX on
an 8 MHz machine.  However, DOC.DRV, which seems to have printed fine in 47
pages, took 5 hours for a single pass (and it takes two passes to resolve the
references).  It took 10 hours to LaTeX the file!  Has anyone else seen such a
problem?  Very strange!  As best as I can tell (and with no "correct" printout
to check against), the printed files looks fine.

Third problem.  To process the indexes to many of these files (and any I may
wish to create for myself) I need a program MAKEINDEX.EXE which will run under
DOS on an IBM/PC.  This was supposed to have been provided by my source for TEX
(PTI), but was not.  Does anyone know where such a program resides and which
can be downloaded from a LISTSERVE (TCP/IP is painfull, but possible)

Finally, in the printed documentation for multicol, array etc from Mainz, and
for reasons I do not understand, the first page (which is always numbered)
always is the header information placed in the file by George Greenwade at SHSU

"Save file  as: docstrip.doc Source: FILESERVE@SHSU.BITNET Note: ..........etc"

(Note that the filename is the name of whatever documentation file I am
printing - docstrip was the example given, but it applies to all of the Mainz
documentation.

Why does this appear when it is all on lines with 3 percent signs?  If I delete
the lines, then the checksum does not count correctly.  Yet, the information is
not something I want on a numbered page in my file.  Does anyone know how I can
supress this printout?

Thanks for any and all help.

                            RW Hendricks