From: mschulter AT DOT value DOT net (M. Schulter) Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp Subject: DJGPP TeX: Congratulations Date: 7 Jul 1997 19:55:21 GMT Organization: Value Net Internetwork Services Inc. Lines: 44 Message-ID: <5prhj9$k7s$1@vnetnews.value.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: value.net To: djgpp AT delorie DOT com DJ-Gateway: from newsgroup comp.os.msdos.djgpp Precedence: bulk DJGPP: Much more than programming --------------------------------- Please let me congratulate Eli and the developers of Web TeX on another outstanding DJGPP port. As expected, Eli's installation instructions were both clear and effective: TeX, LaTeX, and dvips seem to be working fine with some test documents, including an Elisp manual that produced a 6M PostScript file . Over the past decade and more, as DJ and friends have continued in their efforts to port GNU programs to 32-bit DOS and to develop supporting DOS-based tools, the scope of the project has expanded from DJGCC (DJ's version of GCC) to DJGPP (DJ's GNU Programming Platform). Today, the releases of groff and TeX, as well as comprehensive ports of the GNU file, text, and shell utilities, BASH, and the Emacs computing enviroment, embrace a territory extending far beyond the bounds of "programming" in any narrow sense. For example, the groff and TeX packages permit typesetting and desktop publishing of documents of various kinds, including but not limited to programmer's documentation. The less utility enhances a DOS user's access to manual pages and text files of all kinds. Emacs is, of course, an ideal environment for programming with various compiled and interpreted languages -- but is also great for writing articles like this one . A user with no special interest in C/C++/Objective-C might nevertheless be very interested indeed in DJGPP as a DOS upgrade package, a typesetting/publishing package, or a UNIX emulation package. This growth process during the single year that I've been a DJGPP user is a truly impressive tribute to the people who make the project possible. Most appreciatively, Margo Schulter mschulter AT value DOT net (To reply, please remove the extra . in my default address)