From: "George D. Greenwade" <bed_gdg@SHSU.edu>
Newsgroups: comp.text.tex
Subject: RE: Tex on OS/2
Date: Sun, 15 Nov 1992 12:40:41 CST
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On Sat, 14 Nov 92 18:52:19 GMT, <da188@city.ac.uk> posted:
> Does anyone know of a free TeX/LaTeX package that runs under OS/2?
> Preferably one that has a previewer would be most useful.

The betatest version of TeX386 in emTeX supports OS/2, with nearly all of
the bells and whistles the rest of the emTeX package has, such as its
splendid previewer (or at least that's the way I read the documentation as
I don't use OS/2).

The host and directory I am most familiar with insofar as being
authoritative is:
 ftp.uni-stuttgart.de:/soft/tex/machines/pc/emtex/betatest

We keep a close mirror (at least through the November 5, 1992 update; which
I just checked prior to this post as being the most recent activity in that
archive) on Niord.SHSU.edu:[FILESERV.EMTEX.BETATEST].

Finally, since you are at a UK address, ftp.tex.ac.uk is a partial mirror
of uni-stuttgart (which I believe Sebastian now has properly automated and
know he's expanding on a nearly daily basis -- great work Sebastian!). 
Thus, you might try:
 ftp.tex.ac.uk:/pub/archive/systems/pc/emtex/betatest

The latest LaTeX distribution (March 25, 1992) is also at these machines in:
 ftp.uni-stuttgart.de:/soft/tex/latex and its subdirectories, or in that
        directory as a compressed tar archive (latex.tar.Z)
 Niord.SHSU.edu:[FILESERV.LATEX] and its subdirectories (see the file
        0000README.FTP_USERS in that directory for more information), or as
        a compressed tar archive (LATEX-MAR251992.TAR_Z) or a VMS backup
        saveset (LATEX-MAR251992.BCK)
 ftp.tex.ac.uk:/pub/archive/macros/latex and its subdirectories.

The ftp.tex.ac.uk distribution appears to be one of March 18, 1992, and has
a slight variation in its readme file -- it {\em may} not be the most up to
date.  One significant benefit of ftp.tex.ac.uk is that you can choose to
tar, tar and compress, zip, zoo, or a few other things on the fly there, so
you generqally don't find archive files, per se, on that machine since you
can create your own.  I hope to add this feature once we get our Unix ftp
archive machine up and running.

Finally, if you want to retrieve the March 25, 1992, release of LaTeX via
e-mail, include:
 SENDME LATEX
in the body of a mail message ot FILESERV@SHSU.BITNET (FILESERV@SHSU.edu).

Regards,   George
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