Misleading (?) statement about TeX in doc

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From: Eric Hanchrow
Date: Thu, 19 Apr 1990 20:19

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In the documentation (File: emacs Node: TeX Mode) for GNU Emacs
18.55.2 of Wed Jan 3 1990 on ptl (berkeley-unix), I see this sentence
(referring to TeX): `It would work on system V as well if that version
of Unix had a reasonable Pascal compiler.'  I think this is
misleading:  The version of TeX that I have has a program called
`web2c' (written in C), which as you might guess translates WEB
programs to C.  Since most of TeX is written in WEB, all you need is a
C compiler to get it going.  I would therefore expect TeX to be
buildable even on System V.
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