Date: Mon, 18 Aug 1997 16:32:06 +0300 (IDT)
From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>
To: "M. Schulter" <mschulter AT value DOT net>
cc: djgpp AT delorie DOT com
Subject: Re: DJGPP Web2c TeX (was: Is the world dropping MS-DOS?)
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On 16 Aug 1997, M. Schulter wrote:

> DJGPP Web2c TeX isn't a clone of EmTeX: it's a different implementation

This is incorrect.  Both Texk (which was ported to DJGPP) and emTeX
are mostly derived from the same sources.  If you look in the source
distribution of the DJGPP port, you will see #ifdef's that are meant
for building emTeX.

AFAIK, no variant of TeX can call itself that without being derived
from the canonical sources by Prof. Knuth.  This is one of the
requirements that Donald Knuth insists on.

emTeX does include some utilities that were written specifically for
it, but AFAIK they are the minority.