UKTeX V88 #28 Friday 9 September 1988
Driver for Canon LPB 8-II laser printer
Re: Gettin the ASCII code of a character in TeX
TeX/METAFONT on ICL Clan 7
ASCII codes into count registers: UKTeX #27 --- Graham Toal.
Can Sebastian loop forever? UKTeX #27
Sebastian's boxes UKTeX #27
UKTeX kwic indexes
Re: UKTeX V88 #27
typesetting music with TeX
More on getting the ASCII code of a character
Yet more on getting the character code of a TeX variable ...
PostScript emulation for common printers (clarification)
A4 paper in the Apple Laser Writer
tex
A VMS TeX tape
X previewers and xfig
How do I get LaserWriter output?
New book on TeX
refer to BiBTeX conversion
DVI to IBM 3820
Re: UKTeX V88 #6
Bibtex and Web2c
TeX Freiburg
Draft TeX output from IBM PC/AT to low-cost printer.
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Editor Peter Abbott
There are still a few outstanding items, these will be in next weeks issue.
The form for the TeX book below does not work at Aston, I am awaiting
access to another copy.
We have discovered the problem in creating the tar tapes was the blocking
factor. These will be despatched when the Post Office permits.
Latest TeXhax in the Archive is #78
Latest TeXmag in the Archive is V2N5
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To: abbottp@uk.ac.aston
Subject: Driver for Canon LPB 8-II laser printer
Date: Fri, 19 Aug 88 14:12:52 +0000
Message-ID: <1723.587999572@concurrent.co.uk>
From: Alan Young <awy@uk.co.concurrent>
Do you know of a TeX driver for a Canon LPB 8-II laser printer?
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Date: 19-AUG-1988 17:19:24 GMT
From: CHAA006@UK.AC.RHBNC.VAXA
To: Info-TeX@UK.AC.ASTON
Subject: Re: Gettin the ASCII code of a character in TeX
Sender: JANET"CHAA006@UK.AC.RHBNC.VAXA" <CHAA006@UK.AC.RHBNC.VAXA>
Message-Id: <20400AB0_000A31BC.0091795CEB4588C0$143_1@UK.AC.RHBNC.VAXA>
Originally-to: $UK-TEX,JANET%"G.Toal@Edinburgh"
Originally-from:CHAA006 "Philip Taylor, RHBNC"
Mailer: Janet_Mailshr V3.1 (19-Aug-1988)
Graham Toal asks how to get the ASCII value of a character token in TeX;
how about :-
\newtoks \mytoks
\newcount \mycount
\mytoks = {A} % or what-have-you
\expandafter \mycount \expandafter =\expandafter `\the \mytoks
\showthe \mycount
\end
** Phil.
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Date: Fri, 19 Aug 88 19:25:24 BST
From: David Osborne <cczdao@uk.ac.nott.clan>
To: UKTeX <info-tex%uk.ac.aston@uk.ac.nott.cs>,
TeXhax <texhax%edu.stanford.score%uk.ac.rutherford.earn@uk.ac.nott.cs>
cc: dao@uk.ac.nott.clan
Subject: TeX/METAFONT on ICL Clan 7
Message-ID: <8808191025.aa04795@Clan.Nott.AC.UK>
i'm pleased to say that TeX 2.9 and METAFONT 1.3 passed the trip
and trap tests on our ICL Clan 7 yesterday morning. the machine
is really a CCI Power6/32, but is running an ICL version of Unix System V
with a Berkeley Unix filesystem. i know other Power6 machines are
running TeX, but most will be using either Berkeley 4.2 or 4.3,
so this is more relevant to our particular version of the operating system.
without a Pascal compiler, the only route was via Tim Morgan and
Tom Rokicki's "web2c" package (version 2.17). i hit a few snags with
version 2.0, but after Sebastian Rahtz <spqr@uk.ac.soton.cm> pointed
me towards the 2.17 sources, most things came up without much difficulty.
congratulations and thanks are due to Tim and Tom for a superbly useful
set of tools. now all that's needed is a full suite of changefiles for
all the TeXware and MFware (gftodvi is conspicuously absent) and
Unix sites without Pascal compilers will be forever in their debt.
\dave
David Osborne
Cripps Computing Centre, University of Nottingham, Nottingham NG7 2RD, UK
Phone: +44 602 484848 x2064
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Date: 21-AUG-1988 16:05:38 GMT
From: CA_ROWLEY@UK.AC.OPEN.ACS.VAX
To: INFO-TEX@UK.AC.ASTON.MAIL
Subject: ASCII codes into count registers: UKTeX #27 --- Graham Toal.
Graham (and the world)
If you can store your letters away using \def instead of \let, then the
following works (at least it did for me on a Sunday afternoon at Reading):
E.g. after
\def\sctoken{a}
\newcount\asciival
put
\asciival=\expandafter`\sctoken
and \asciival will hold the value 97.
I hope this will fit in to your overall stategy, as I am not sure what to do
in the \let case.
Chris Rowley
PS: Another approach would be to compare each letter with itself \uppercase'd.
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Date: 21-AUG-1988 16:18:10 GMT
From: CA_ROWLEY@UK.AC.OPEN.ACS.VAX
To: INFO-TEX@UK.AC.ASTON.MAIL
Subject: Can Sebastian loop forever? UKTeX #27
The question of TeX looping forever is an interesting one to which I do not
have a definite answer: my money is on Yes, but it may be that no-one has yet
discovered a way to do it.
Why Sebastian's table sent it to sleep we may never know, but I am fairly sure
that, even if its ennui were curable, it would not do as he required:
This is because the contents of a \savebox are alrewady typeset before
being saved, so he (or even you) cannot take them out of that box and
reset them in a new font, (not even a P********T one!).
I think I shall go back to sleep now.
Chris Rowley
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Date: 21-AUG-1988 16:28:05 GMT
From: CA_ROWLEY@UK.AC.OPEN.ACS.VAX
To: INFO-TEX@UK.AC.ASTON.MAIL
Subject: Sebastian's boxes UKTeX #27
Having looked more carefully at Sebastian's sleeping problem, I see that he is
retypesetting the box, so it {\em should} work: so further analysis seems
appropriate---what, of any use, does the .LOG file say?
Chris Rowley
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Date: Fri, 19 Aug 88 19:11:03 BST
From: David Osborne <cczdao@uk.ac.nott.clan>
To: UKTeX <info-tex%uk.ac.aston@uk.ac.nott.cs>
cc: dao@uk.ac.nott.clan
Subject: UKTeX kwic indexes
Message-ID: <8808191011.aa04758@Clan.Nott.AC.UK>
Peter,
these aren't nearly as elegant as Barbara's index to TeXhax
(TeXhax 88 #74), but might be useful.
i modified the keyword-in-context script of R.Clayton
(TeXhax 88 #57, June 17) to work with UKTeX articles.
here are the kwic indexes for UKTeX for 1987 and 1988
(issues to date, including #27 which has just arrived)
\dave
-------------------------cut here: uktex87.kwic-------------------------
2.2: tex * on vax/vms (uktex87.04)
2700/3700: re :tex dvi driver for the xerox * (uktex87.04)
\output: * routines for tex (uktex87.11)
addison-wesley: * (uktex87.03)
advice: unix-tex? and * on circuit diagrams (uktex87.16)
+++Editor - Thanks for this information the files are available in
[public.uktex]index.uktex87
and
[public.uktex]index.uktex88
I am sure everyone would find it useful if you would send an update to
index.uktex88 early in 1989. +++
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Date: Mon, 22 Aug 88 9:42:31 BST
From: Sebastian Rahtz <spqr@uk.ac.soton.cm>
To: ABBOTTP@uk.ac.aston
Subject: Re: UKTeX V88 #27
re: previewers
There is at least one PC TeX previewer in the MICROS collection at
Lancaster, and one in [public.preview.ibmpc] at Aston, as I recall.
But the reason I write is just to confirm that I have tried a PC
previewer with Sun PC-NFS, whereby my Sun directory is seen as the PC's
drive F:, and previewing F:\*.DVI works exactly as you would hope,
albeit not at a huge speed.
Whats wrong with the Sun previewers though?
Sebastian Rahtz
PS Peter was a bit cryptic - the files in [PUBLIC.WEB2C] are Tim
Morgan's Web to C translation system for Unix people, version 2.17
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Date: Mon, 22 Aug 88 10:22:36 BST
From: Sebastian Rahtz <spqr@uk.ac.soton.cm>
To: info-tex@uk.ac.aston.mail
Cc: text@uk.ac.soton.cm
Subject: typesetting music with TeX
seen on Music Research Digest
----- Forwarded message # 1:
Date: Sat, 6 Aug 88 9:03:15 EDT
>From: Phillip T Conrad <conrad@a.cs.wvu.wvnet.edu>
Subject: Music notation in TeX
To: sdpage%prg.oxford.ac.uk@NSS.Cs.Ucl.AC.UK
I am currently finishing a Master's thesis at West Virginia University in
Morgantown WV which presents a prototype system for typesetting music
notation with TeX. It represents the efforts of only one person (myself)
and still has a lot of problems, but I feel it is a good start on the
problem.
It would seem that the central obstacle to musical typesetting with
TeX is the production of slurs (ties, phrase marks) and slanted beams.
In John Gourlay's cover story in the May 1986 cover story of Communications of
the ACM, he submits that it is a fair assumption that no two beams
or slurs are precisely identical, so it would not be feasible to produce
a font of all the possible slurs or beams. I have operated from this
premise, as have Dunne and J\"urgensen.
Dunne and J\"urgensen conducted research at the University of Western Ontario;
they defines the concept of i-marks and p-marks.
I-marks are invariant marks; the kind of marks that can be put into a
font and typeset easily with TeX. P-marks are parameterized marks whose
shape and size varies according to certain parameters. The only p-marks
TeX is capable of typesetting are the horizontal and vertical rules.
Dunne and J\"urgensen use Postscript to augment the capability of TeX with
a special version of dvi2ps. Their preliminary findings are available
as technical report 171, from U. of Western Ontario, London Ont, Canada.
There is also a thesis written by Schofer and Steinbach at the Institut
f\"ur Angewandte Mathematik at the Univerity of Bonn, entitled
Automatische Notensatz mit TeX. My knowledge of German does not really
transcend musical terminology and pub survival skills, so I was unable
to discern the finer points of their approach, but it seems from looking
at the pictures that they did not operate from the assumption that a
font of beams and slurs is unfeasible; they appear to have generated
just such a font, and they use plain TeX alone. A copy of their work
(in German) may be obtained for 25DM by writing to the Institut at
Wegler Str. 6, 5300 Bonn, Federal Rep. of Germany.
My own approach builds on the previous work at the Ohio State University
of Gourlay et al. announced in the the CACM article mentioned above. I
use the TeXtyl program of John Renner (OSU Tech Report
OSU-CISRC-4/87-TR9) rather than Postscript to draw the beams and slurs.
In theory this provides device independence; in practice, the following
restrictions apply: 1) The target system must support METAFONT for
generation of the vector fonts necessary to TeXtyl, 2) 3 Pascal programs
and 1 C program must be ported to the target system; at this time, the
programs are written for only BSD Unix 4.3.
If would like a copy of my thesis, please contact me at the following address:
Phillip T. Conrad
401-K E. 3rd St.
Wilmington DE 19801-3964
U. S. A.
(302)-652-3938
This electronic mail address will be valid only through the end of
September 1988, since I am graduating soon (God, and the Master's
Commitee Willing).
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Date: Mon, 15 Aug 88 14:55:03 EDT
>From: Shane Dunne <shane@CA.UWO.UWOCSD>
Subject: Music printing
To: sdpage@UK.AC.OXFORD.PRG
[ Shane Dunne kindly replied to an enquiry I sent about some work he
had done on music typesetting using TeX. I've included extracts here
as they may intereste readers. - S]
I was working on
music printing per se about a year ago, and developed a rudimentary
music-setting prototype based on TeX and PostScript. This system knows
nothing of the rules of music formatting; the user describes the
desired graphic result directly to TeX, using its glue-setting
capabilities to handle various problems of spacing. These days I have
broadened my research focus to encompass all types of "specialized
notations"---those which use a fixed repertoire of symbolic
marks---including music and music-like notations, logic diagrams,
schematic representations of all kinds (e.g. of automata), flow
diagrams, etc. I think the existing "typesetting" paradigm can be
extended to "marksetting", where a "mark" is any kind of symbol, not
necessarily of fixed form like a text character, but possibly dependent
on one or more parameters (e.g. 2 endpoints for a line segment). I am
trying to develop a design for a general-purpose marksetting system,
which can be used as a software basis for any number of specialized
formatting programs, i.e. a different front-end program for each class
of notation.
I am doing this research towards a Master's thesis in Computer Science,
which I hope to complete before the end of December. In the meantime
there is one technical report which discusses my earlier work on
music-setting, including the prototype, and contains some early ideas
about general mark-setting. If you would like a copy of this report,
please let me know.
P.S. I recently received a report entitled "Automatisierter Notensatz
mit TeX" by Angelika Schofer and Andrea Steinbach, from the Rheinische
Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universitat in Bonn, which describes music-setting
extensions to TeX which are much more comprehensive than my efforts.
This system appears to "understand" some form of music-description
language, and to apply music-setting rules automatically. The music is
printed with TeX by means of special fonts (designed with METAFONT).
[ Do any readers have any further information on these systems? -S]
My approach was simpler; I used PostScript's powerful graphic
primitives to define parametrized procedures to create things like
beams and slurs. Schofer and Steinbach's fonts simply include huge
numbers of different beam and slur characters, at different slants,
etc., to handle a reasonable set of cases. The results look very
good.
-----
Shane Dunne, Dept. of Computer Science, University of Western
Ontario, London, Ontario, N6A 5B7 CANADA
shane@uwocsd.UWO.CA shane@UWOVAX.BITNET
from US: ...!{ihnp4|decvax|seismo}!{watmath|utzoo}!julian!uwocsd!shane
from Europe: ...!mcvax!seismo!watmath!julian!uwocsd!shane
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Date: 22-AUG-1988 14:12:52 GMT
From: CHAA006@UK.AC.RHBNC.VAXB
To: Info-TeX@UK.AC.ASTON
Subject: More on getting the ASCII code of a character
Sender: JANET"CHAA006@UK.AC.RHBNC.VAXB" <CHAA006@UK.AC.RHBNC.VAXB>
Message-Id: <20201246_0019A74C.00917B9E5A3AD760$26_3@UK.AC.RHBNC.VAXB>
Originally-to: $INFO-TEX
Originally-from:CHAA006 "Philip Taylor, RHBNC"
Mailer: Janet_Mailshr V3.1 (19-Aug-1988)
Graham Toal correctly pointed out that the earlier version would
only work if the character assigned to the \toks variable was
explicit; the following version, which is almost certainly
overly-complex, works for an implicit character as well .....
\newtoks \xxx % so that it doesn't contain a |t| !!!
\newcount \mycount
\let \mychar = a % get an implicit char; in real-life, \futurelet might be used
{\let \0 = \catcode
\let \1 = \gdef
\0`\t = 12
\0`\h = 12
\0`\e = 12
\0`\l = 12
\0`\r = 12
\1\2the letter #1{\xxx = {#1}}}
\expandafter \2\meaning \mychar
\expandafter \mycount \expandafter =\expandafter `\the \xxx
The lowercase letter \the \xxx = \the \mycount;
\advance \mycount by -32
\chardef \mylet = \mycount
The uppercase letter \mylet = \the \mycount.
\bye
** Phil.
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Date: 23-AUG-1988 18:19:53 GMT
From: CHAA006@UK.AC.RHBNC.VAXB
To: Info-TeX@UK.AC.ASTON
Subject: Yet more on getting the character code of a TeX variable ...
Sender: JANET"CHAA006@UK.AC.RHBNC.VAXB" <CHAA006@UK.AC.RHBNC.VAXB>
Message-Id: <202014A4_000A31E4.00917C8A08B11840$22_1@UK.AC.RHBNC.VAXB>
Originally-to: $INFO-TEX,JANET%"G.Toal@Edinburgh"
Originally-from:CHAA006 "Philip Taylor, RHBNC"
Mailer: Janet_Mailshr V3.1 (19-Aug-1988)
% Of course, even yesterday's forage into TeX esoteria
% didn't solve what to do with non-letters in \mychar ...
% This version will deal with any non-active character;
% active characters (and, since we're presuming the use
% of \futurelet, control sequences) should be weeded out
% first, by judicious use of \ifcat ...
\newif \iftracing
\newif \ifmoretodo
\newtoks \mytoks
\newtoks \before
\newtoks \after
\newtoks \space
\newcount \lc
\newcount \uc
\newcount \mc
\space = { }
\let \mychar = & % or any other `funny' (but not active) character ...
\let \0 = \mychar % \0 is like \mychar, but doesn't soak up spaces ...
\let \then = \empty % for \if \then \else \fi ...
\def \split#1 #2\split {\before = {#1} \after = {#2}
\iftracing \then \message {[#1|#2]} \fi}
\expandafter \mytoks \expandafter =\expandafter {\meaning \0 }
\loop
\expandafter \split \the \mytoks \split
\expandafter \def \expandafter \remainder \expandafter {\the \after}
\ifx \remainder \empty
\then \mytoks = \before \moretodofalse
\else \mytoks = \after \moretodotrue
\fi
\ifmoretodo \repeat
\expandafter \mc \expandafter =\expandafter `\the \mytoks
\lc = \lccode \mc
\uc = \uccode \mc
\ifnum \lc = 0
\then \message {Character \the \mc \the \space has no \lccode !}
\fi
\ifnum \uc = 0
\then \message {Character \the \mc \the \space has no \uccode !}
\fi
\ifnum \lc = 0
\then Character \char \mc~has code: \the \mc
\else \ifnum \uc = 0
\then Character \char \mc~has code: \the \mc
\else Character \char \lc~has lccode: \the \lc;
character \char \uc~has uccode: \the \uc
\fi
\fi
\bye
** Phil.
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Date: 24-AUG-1988 12:14:51 GMT
From: CHAA006@UK.AC.RHBNC.VAXB
To: Info-TeX@UK.AC.ASTON
Subject: PostScript emulation for common printers (clarification)
Sender: JANET"CHAA006@UK.AC.RHBNC.VAXB" <CHAA006@UK.AC.RHBNC.VAXB>
Message-Id: <20201ADD_0015DA94.00917D2034667340$25_3@UK.AC.RHBNC.VAXB>
Originally-to: $TEX-HAX,$INFO-TEX
Originally-from:CHAA006 "Philip Taylor, RHBNC"
Mailer: Janet_Mailshr V3.1 (19-Aug-1988)
My earlier plea for PostScript emulation for common printers (Epson FX80, etc)
produced only one reply, and that made it plain that I had been extremely
ambiguous in my wording. So, I'll try again !
Does anyone know if there exists either a PostScript program, or
a stand-alone program, which will interpret a file contain Epson
FX-80 command sequences (or Diablo-630 command sequences) and
generate PostScript output which will thereby produce, on a PostScript
printer, a reasonable facsimile of the text as it would appear on
the Epson (or Diablo) ?
** Phil.
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From: Dunstan_Vavasour@uk.co.gec-epl
Date: Thu, 25 Aug 88 14:37:44 BST
To: info-tex@uk.ac.aston
Subject: A4 paper in the Apple Laser Writer
Sender: Dunstan_Vavasour%uk.co.gec-epl%sunfs@uk.co.gec-epl.a
Has anyone else out there found that their carefully thought out page
layouts are thrown askance when fed through an Apple Laser Writer? It
seems that the width difference between A4 and quarto in the paper
magazine is filled on the LEFT hand side of the printed page, so about
1/4" of margin disappears. This needs bearing in mind when rolling a
page format....
Solution - careful consideration of page size when dealing with any
hardware or software originating in the States, e.g. the page size for
dvipage, the canvas and page sizes in fig and f2ps. One day we will
all use the same size paper, until then beware.
Dunstan Vavasour
Systems Design Division
GEC Electrical Projects
Boughton Road
Rugby, Warwickshire, CV21 1BU
Tel: (0788)542144 Ext: 3535
Email: dv@gec-epl.co.uk
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Acknowledge-To: Alan Reed <Reed@UK.AC.BIRMINGHAM>
Date: Thu, 25 Aug 88 16:53+0100
From: Alan Reed <Reed@UK.AC.BIRMINGHAM>
Subject: tex
To: ABBOTTP@UK.AC.ASTON.MAIL
Message-ID: <880825155316.889620@UK.AC.BIRMINGHAM>
Does anyone know of any Chess Symbols that one can use from TeX. I would
like to use TeX for typesetting Chessboards with pieces on it, together
with normal text.
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From: Alexander Holt <agbh@uk.ac.cam.eng.dsl>
Date: Fri, 26 Aug 88 15:46:15 BST
Message-Id: <5516.8808261446@kate.eng.cam.ac.uk>
To: abbottp@uk.ac.aston
Subject: A VMS TeX tape
Many thanks for your work in maintaining all the UK TeX info at Aston -
it's a very useful service. This is a query about sending you a tape
for a VMS version of TeX. You say it takes two 2400' tapes for the
complete archive - if we just want a basic TeX distribution that will
work with the minimum of effort on a VMS system where there is as yet
little TeX expertise, do you have a set of files, perhaps fitting on one
tape, that would provide that? Or would we be better off taking the
whole archive and just extracting from tape the essential files?
Lex Holt
+++Editor - Now that PSPRINT (3.0) has been released I can backup the
working set of TeX/LaTeX as used at Aston. It will fit on one reel.+++
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Date: Tue, 30 Aug 88 16:24:13 BST
From: Ian Moor <iwm@uk.ac.ic.doc>
To: info-tex@uk.ac.aston
Subject: X previewers and xfig
Message-ID: <8808301624.aa27132@ivax.doc.ic.ac.uk>
The previewer in the archives, texx, does not work correctly on vaxes,
the characters are displayed reflected about a vertical axis; this
is probably because it was developed from a sun-based program (texsun)
and suns have different byte order. There is a different previewer
xdvi available which works on both machines and under X10 as well as X11
A copy can be obtained from the archives here, ic.doc is one of the
servers for the software sharing in the UK (see the newsgroup uk.general);
Use FTP from uk.ac.ic.doc.src to retrieve
X.V11R2/UNOFF-OTHER/x11r3dvi.tar.Z (in binary mode); there are
lots of other sources, including most of comp.sources.unix and the X11
distribution, get the file ls-lR from the top level directory for a
listing. The user name should be anonymous with any password; mail
retrieval is possible, mail to info-server@uk.ac.ic.doc with the
message help.
There is a version of xfig (fig for X) in the archives here, although it
is not as recent a version as the one posted to comp.sources.x
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Date: 1 Sep 1988 15:05:50-WET
Subject: How do I get LaserWriter output?
From: alien <alien@essex.ese>
To: info-tex@uk.ac.aston.mail
I've just brought up TeX under Unix for the first time and am unable
to generate output on my LaserWriter. I've tried using psdvi with the
PS TFM files in the Aston archive: all I can get out is a series of dots
(of varying size, admittedly, but not much like the intended output).
I've also had a go with dvi2ps and Nelson Beebe's driver (v2.10) using
CM series fonts (not optimised for the LaserWriter, but they should
work). Well, they don't: it just sits there and does nothing.
In a last, desperate effort, I generated the PS under VMS using Andy
Trevorrow's PSPRINT...but all I can get out is the text!
So what am I doing wrong? (The LaserWriter is connected to a 4.2bsd
system using TransScript, I'm told.) It was never this difficult
under VMS... :-)
Adrian F. Clark
JANET: alien@uk.ac.essex.ese
ARPA: alien%uk.ac.essex.ese@cs.ucl.ac.uk
BITNET: alien%uk.ac.essex.ese@ac.uk
Smail: Dept. of Electronic Systems Engineering, Essex University,
Wivenhoe Park, Colchester, Essex C04 3SQ, U. K.
Phone: (+44) 206-872432 (direct)
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Date: 2-SEP-1988 12:40:30 GMT +0100
From: CRB@UK.AC.RO-GREENWICH.STARLINK
To: info-tex@UK.AC.ASTON
A word-processing question rather than a TeX one, but
readers may be able to help. I'm looking for a comprehensive
dictionary in electronic form, which includes proper names
(e.g. Albania, Algol, Alice), inflections (e.g. include,
includes, included, including) and common abbreviations
(e.g. USA), i.e. a dictionary of all meaningful strings
which are as commonly used as the ordinary English words
included.
Does anybody know if such a beast exists?
Chris Benn Royal Greenwich Observatory (CRB @ UK.AC.RGO.STAR)
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Date: TUE, 6-SEP-88 12:28 N
From: <FISICA@INFNET.ASTRPD>
Reply-To: <FISICA%ASTRPD.INFNET@EARN.IBOINFN>
Subject: New book on TeX
To: <ABBOTTP@UK.AC.ASTON>
X-Original-To: abbottp@aston.ac.uk, FISICA
Peter
I saw a great book on TeX, a kind of huge two volumes bible.
The book is not published yet, but the author sells pre-release.
Here is a form in TeX which you can extract and print with instructions.
Max
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% max: here is the current order/information on stephan's book
% ANOTHER LOOK AT TEX
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% insert your local offsets:
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% You are allowed to print as many copies of this note as you want. But
% you are not allowed to change the text in anyway.
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\def\version{3.9}
\def\ExpirationDate{December%31, 1988}% Expiration date of form
\def\ShippingDates{September%15, November%15, 1988 and January%15, 1989}
\def\PriceUSMail{\$57.00}
\def\PriceUPS{\$59.00}
\def\PriceUPSHawaiAlaska{\$68.00}
\def\PriceCanada{\$61.00}
\def\PriceSurface{\$62.00}
\def\PriceAirMail{\$102.00}
\def\NetworkAddress{integin!svb@cs.purdue.edu}
\def\CompanyName{Integrated Computer Software, Inc.}
\def\Street{2119 Old Oak Drive}
\def\City{West Lafayette, IN 47906}
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T\kern-.1667em\lower.7ex\hbox{E}\kern-.125emX}}
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\def\Title #1{\par\bigskip\leftline{\bf #1}\nobreak}
\def\Address{
\line{{\bf Stephan v. Bechtolsheim}\hfil (317) 463 0162}
\leftline{\CompanyName}
\leftline{\Street}
\leftline{\City, USA}
}
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$$
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&&&&US Mail: Canada, book rate&&\PriceCanada\CR
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\Address
\vskip 0.5in
\centerline{\bf Note on ``Another Look at \TeX''}
\parskip = 4pt plus 1pt
\parindent = 20pt
\Title{Introduction}
This note gives you a short overview of my two-volume series
called ``Another Look at \TeX''.
\Title{What is ``Another Look at \TeX''?}
I have been a teacher and consultant for \TeX{} for over two years
now. During that period I began putting my own class notes
together. And whenever I had an interesting problem to solve in one of my
consulting jobs I asked my customers for permission to include the
problem and the solution into the books. Most of them have allowed me to do so.
Therefore, teaching and consulting are the two main sources for my
books. A consequence of this is that the books have a {\bf strong
tutorial aspect}. They are literally {\bf loaded with tons of real
life examples} (well, some academic ones too, of course).
For example, the chapters on tables built with {\tt \string\halign}
contain about 100 sample tables.
The book also contains various macros which can be used in plain
\TeX{} as well as in \LaTeX. I would like to mention though that the
books do not try to present another macro package---instead they try to
give you the necessary material to put your own macros together.
The books deal with {\bf all aspects of \TeX}, starting with simple boxes
to very complicated output routines. Coming back to the issue of
examples: there are about a dozen fully worked output routines in the books.
\Title{The State of the Books, Publisher}
Writing these books took me
quite a bit longer then I had anticipated. One of the reasons for this is that
I am trying to be complete, and really cover ``all of it''. Most of you know
that \TeX{} is quite complicated, which accounts for the length of the
books. What started out as some ten page-long summaries about various
subjects is now divided into two volumes, together about 975 pages long.
I am still writing, although things are finally coming to an end.
The books are being reviewed
by Addison-Wesley. I have not made any real efforts to contact other
publishers, because I would like to finish the books first.
\Title{Pre-release Copies Are for Sale}
Right now {\bf I sell pre-release copies of the books}.
As I pointed out, this is not the finished version.
If you buy a pre-release version
{\bf you are obligated to buy the final copies}. This seems to be, at
least in my eyes, a reasonable request especially with regard to the fact
that I am close to the end. To put it differently: I am really only
interested in selling the final books!
{\bf You are not allowed to make any additional copies}.
Please contact me if you would like to make copies of the books or parts
of them. Some people have shown interest in using the books for teaching
\TeX{} classes. We certainly can work out something.
\Title{Next Printings}
The next printings are planned for the following dates: \ShippingDates.
It is essential that you contact me before the respective dates because I only
print the number of copies ordered. I don't keep a stock!
As soon as I have received orders for ten copies or more I will get
these copies done and mail them out regardless of the printing dates
announced in the previous paragraph. So it is in your own interest to get
in your order as early as possible. Prices can be found on the order form.
\Title{Payment}
Prepayment is required, check or money order. No exceptions, no phone
orders. Please keep the first two pages of this flyer, and return only
the order form (last page).
\Title{Your Postal Address}
If you have received this flyer through regular mail
please check carefully your address as I printed it. Drop me a
note immediately in case there is an error.
Tell me your network
address if you have one---even better reply to this letter via network
mail. My network address is {\tt \NetworkAddress}. There was an error
in a recent issue of TUGboat (April%88) which gave a wrong
network address of me. Please correct and only use the email address
given in the letterhead or in this paragraph. Even if you had an
email address of mine, please write down the new one, because it changed
recently! Mail directed to my old address is forwarded.
\Title{Feedback}
When you read the books and you have comments {\bf please let me
know what you think about the books}. As of now don't bother about
spelling errors and other ``small details''. It's too early in the game---%
which is not a great excuse, I know. If you have any
examples which you think I should include drop me a note!
For any questions, corrections or other correspondence, please use the
address given in this letter head.
\Title{Expiration Date}
This offer and the order form expire \ExpirationDate.
Please contact me directly for a new form after that time.
You may duplicate this flyer as long as you don't change its text in any way.
\Title{Sales Pitch}
I own a consultant company dealing, among other things, with
computerized publishing. I have experience in \TeX{}, \PS, SGML, UNIX and
I am always looking for work. I also teach \TeX{}, \LaTeX{} and \PS{} classes.
Give me a call if you are interested!
\Title{Thank You}
Thank you all for being so supportive of this project.
\vfill
\leftline{This form is invalid after \ExpirationDate{} (ask for a new form
if necessary)}
\leftline{\tt Version \version}
\eject
\nopagenumbers
\vbox to 0.5in{}
\centerline{\bf Order Form}
\bigskip
I hereby order the following number of copies of the two
volume-series ``Another Look at \TeX'':
\OrderTable
Prices include everything, obviously. Please also observe that
shipping is {\bf at your own risk}. The books will {\bf not be replaced
if lost in the mail}. If you would like to insure the books choose UPS
please. There is currently now way to insure books mailed outside the U.S.
I enclose \$\ \vrule width 30pt height 1pt depth 0pt\
(check or money order only). Prepayment is required, in U.S.%funds drawn
on a U.S.%bank. Make checks
payable to ``\CompanyName''. Send your order to: \CompanyName, \Street,
\City. Please observe that this address has recently changed.
I promise to uphold the copyright of the books. I
will not make any copies unless specifically authorized in writing to
do so. The copyright includes the macros presented in the books.
Furthermore, {\bf I hereby promise to buy the final copy of the
books}; I am aware of the fact that what I buy right now are pre-release
versions of the books.
Please also check one of the following: (%)%I would like to receive
a receipt as soon as you receive my order, (%)%I would like a receipt
when the book is mailed to me, (%)%I don't need a receipt.
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\leftline{\hskip 0.75in\hbox to 0pt{Name:\hss}\xx}
\leftline{\hskip 0.75in\hbox to 0pt{Address:\hss}\xx}
\leftline{\hskip 0.75in\hbox to 0pt{(please print)\hss}\xx}
\leftline{\hskip 0.75in\xx}
\leftline{\hskip 0.75in\xx}
\leftline{\hskip 0.75in\hbox to 0pt{Phone:\hss}\xx}
\leftline{\hskip 0.75in\hbox to 0pt{Electronic mail address:\hss}\xx}
\leftline{\hskip 0.75in (include network specification, please)}
\vskip 30pt
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\leftline{This form is invalid after \ExpirationDate.}
\leftline{The order must be {\bf received} before that date.}
\leftline{\tt Version \version}
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\end
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From: Peter King <pjbk@uk.ac.hw.cs>
Date: Fri, 26 Aug 88 14:46:57 BST
Message-Id: <20614.8808261346@brahma.cs.hw.ac.uk>
To: info-tex@uk.ac.aston, texhax%score.stanford.edu@uk.ac.ucl.cs.nss
Subject: refer to BiBTeX conversion
Cc: mackay%june.cs.washington.edu@uk.ac.ucl.cs.nss
I have written a shell script (using both sed and awk) which
will convert refer (or bib) databases to BiBTeX format. The program
r2bib on the UNIX tape does a similar job, but I belive my script
is more useful because it
a) does a better job of generating keys
b) converts accents and (some) troff special characters
c) is readily customisable (if you know awk)
d) does a slightly better job of classification
of type of reference.
It's probably too long (c. 850 lines) to include in the mailshot,
but here it is for archiving. I have sent Pierre MacKay a copy.
The manual page was adapted from the r2bib manual page.
Peter King
Peter King, Computer Science Department JANET: pjbk@uk.ac.hw.cs
Heriot-Watt University ARPA: pjbk@cs.hw.ac.uk
79 Grassmarket, Edinburgh EH1 2HJ or pjbk%cs.hw.ac.uk@ucl-cs
Phone: (+44) 31 225 6465 Ext. 555 UUCP: ..!ukc!cs.hw.ac.uk!pjbk
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export PATH || exec /bin/sh $0 $*
: "This is a shar archive; use /bin/sh to extract"
+++Editor - Yes it is please get [public.score.latex]king.txh +++
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Date: 25-AUG-1988 14:04:40 GMT
From: RM001A@UK.AC.CRANFIELD.CDVC
To: ABBOTT@UK.AC.ASTON.MAIL
The two submissions have been imported:
CROSSWORDS -- A .STY file for typsetting crosswords, together with
examples of its use
DVITOLN03 -- Version 2.0 of Brian HAMILTON KELLY's DVItoLN03
driver; this now utilizes packed pixel files (with
fallback to PXL if necessary), and also overcomes
all former problems with invisible and very large
characters.
Each one has an AAAREADME.TXT file, describing the contents of each
submission.
Computer Centre
RMCS (Cranfield)
+++Editor - the directories are
[public.drivers.ukln03] and [public.utilities.crossword] +++
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by ISMAIL(2.1.16); 7 Sep 1988 14:33:37 BST
Date: Wed, 07 Sep 88 14:31:46 BST
From: David Lloyd <QQ47@UK.AC.LIVERPOOL.IBM>
Subject: DVI to IBM 3820
To: Peter Abbott <ABBOTTP@ASTON>
When we got TeX 2.1 for CMS we also got some programs to convert DVI files to
files that would print on IBM printers. We now have a 3820 APA printer but the
conversion program produces files which are rejected because they ask for
the Computer Modern fonts rather than IBM 3820 fonts. Does anyone know of
a program which will ask for the right fonts?
It is quite possible that the program will do what I want but I don't know
how to make it do it. If anyone else knows then I would be grateful for
instructions.
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Date: Thu, 25 Aug 88 12:26 BST
From: Piete Brooks <pb@uk.ac.cam.cl>
To: ABBOTTP@uk.ac.aston
Subject: Re: UKTeX V88 #26
Message-Id: <pb.88.08.25.12:26.940@scaup>
In-Reply-To: ABBOTTP's message of 10-AUG-1988 162017 GMT
> +++Editor - The file is [public.preview]x112dvi.tar_z +++
* Could you confirm that this is 8 bit ?
* I did a binary FTP (checked it set binary mode in my logs) & it seems to be
* only 7 bit.
* What is the first byte (in hex) ? Should be 9f ...
+++Editor - Sorry I have no idea how to find out the information you have
requested +++
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Date: Thu, 8 Sep 88 11:03:53 BST
From: Ian Moor <iwm@uk.ac.ic.doc>
To: info-tex@uk.ac.aston.mail
Subject: Bibtex and Web2c
Message-ID: <8809081103.aa03670@ivax.doc.ic.ac.uk>
One of the files in [public.web2c.bibtex], bibtex.c , has the wrong name,
it should be bibext.c - it contains the system dependent routines for bibtex.
Anybody fetching it should rename it before running the makefile, as
the translation from web->pascal->c is expected to produce a file called
bibtex.c; the makefile may stop or overwrite bibtex.c depending on whether
there is already a file called bibext.c present; the latter happened to me
Ian Moor
+++Editor - Thanks, the file has been renamed +++
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Date: 09/08/88 11:58:44 GMT+1
From: QZDMGN@EARN.RUIPC1E
To: RBAILEY@UK.AC.AFRC.RESB
Subject: TeX Freiburg
Dr. Reinhard Wonneberger qzdmgn @ drueds2 . EARN
... +49-6131-57 27 85 .. ... +49-6142-850-115 ..
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... D 6500 Mainz 1 ..... ... D 6090 Ruesselsheim
Rosemary,
I send you mail about Freiburg that I just received.
Can you please forward it to other interested parties
like Cathy, Malcolm, Peter Abbot etc.?
Regards Reinhard
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Sender: TEX_D-L <TEX_D-L@DEARN>
Comments: Changed X430-Header: TO: <TEX_D-L@DEARN.BITNET> FROM:
"Anne Brueggemann-Klein"<ABK@SUN1.RUF.UNI-FREIBURG.DBP.DE>
MESSAGE ID: <ABK@SUN1.RUF.UNI-FREIBURG.DBP.DE>;31 BODY TYPE:
IA5TEXT
From: ABK@SUN1.RUF.UNI-FREIBURG.DBP.DE
Subject: 7. Deutsches TeX-Treffen in Freiburg
To: "Dr. Reinhard Wonneberger" <QZDMGN@RUIPC1E>
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%% %%
%% Ank"undigung %%
%% %%
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Das Institut f"ur Informatik, Universit"at Freiburg, l"adt ein zum
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%% %%
%% 7. Deutschen TeX-Treffen %%
%% am 13. und 14. Oktober 1988 %%
%% in Freiburg %%
%% %%
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Auch in diesem Jahr soll das Deutsche TeX-Treffen Interessenten aus
Hochschule und Industrie Gelegenheit zu Vortr"agen,
Ausstellungen und Diskussionen "uber TeX-relevante Themen bieten.
Daneben wird das Programm gen"ugend Zeit zum Erfahrungsaustausch und
zum pers"onlichen Gespr"ach lassen.
Alle Interessenten werden gebeten, sich bis zum *19. September*
anzumelden. Ein Anmeldeformular befindet sich am
Ende dieser Mitteilung. Bitte LaTeXen Sie es selber und schicken es
anschlie"send ausgef"ullt an die unten angegebene Adresse.
Es w"are sch"on, wenn alle Vortragenden bis zum *3. Oktober*
eine Zusammenfassung ihres Vortrags (maximal 3 Seiten)
"uber email oder auf IBM PC- bzw. Macintosh-Disketten
einschicken w"urden. Diese Kurzfassungen werden dann zu Beginn des
Treffens in Form eines gebundenen Heftes
an die Tagungsteilnehmer/innen verteilt.
Das endg"ultige Programm wird den angemeldeten
Teilnehmer/inne/n bis zum 30. September zugeschickt.
Schon jetzt sei auf die *open problem session* hingewiesen, bei der
hoffentlich viele interessante (leichte oder schwierige) TeX-Probleme
gestellt und gel"ost werden!
F"ur eine Hotelreservierung wenden Sie sich bitte unter Bezug auf
das 7. Treffen der deutschen TeX-Interessenten bis zum
*13. September* direkt an den
Verkehrsverein Freiburg unter der folgenden Adresse:
Freiburg-Information
Abt. G"astebetreuung-Reservierung
Postfach 1549
D-7800 Freiburg i. Br.
Ich freue mich schon jetzt, Sie in Freiburg begr"u"sen zu d"urfen!
Anne Br"uggemann-Klein
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Bitte LaTeXen Sie das folgende Anmeldeformular und schicken Sie es
ausgef"ullt an die folgende Adresse:
Dr. Anne Br"uggemann-Klein
Institut f"ur Informatik
Universit"at Freiburg
Rheinstr. 10--12
D-7800 Freiburg i. Br.
Tel. (0761) 203-3896
email abk@sun1.ruf.uni-freiburg.dbp.de
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\begin{center}
{\large\bf Anmeldung}\\
zum 7.%Deutschen \TeX-Treffen\\
am 13.%und 14.%Oktober 1988 in Freiburg
\end{center}
\vfill
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\dotline{Adresse}
\moredots
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Ich m"ochte einen Vortrag halten\hfill\tick ja \tick nein
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\dotline{Dauer (Richtzeit 20 min.)}
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\tick Macintosh Diskette \=
\tick email\\
\> \tick IBM PC Diskette \>
\tick gar nicht
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\vskip.8\baselineskip
Ich m"ochte \TeX-relevante Produkte pr"asentieren\hfill\tick ja
\tick nein
\advance\leftskip2em
\dotline{Es handelt sich um}
\moredots
\moredots
\moredots
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\hskip2em Das Produkt ist eine \=\tick Universit"atsentwicklung\\
\> \tick kommerzielle Entwicklung
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\dotline{Ich bringe folgende Ger"ate mit}
\moredots
\moredots
\moredots
\dotline{Ich ben"otige folgende Ger"ate (R"ucksprache!)}
\moredots
\moredots
\moredots
\advance\leftskip-2em
\vskip.8\baselineskip
Ich m"ochte an einem gemeinsamen Abendessen am 13.%Oktober
teilnehmen (Unkostenbeitrag ca.%DM%25,--)\hfill\tick ja \tick nein
\vfill
Bitte schicken Sie Ihre Anmeldung bis zum 19.%September an
\vskip.8\baselineskip
\begin{flushleft}
\advance\baselineskip-3pt
Dr.%Anne Br"uggemann-Klein\\
Institut f"ur Informatik\\
Universit"at Freiburg\\
Rheinstr.%10--12\\
D-7800 Freiburg
\end{flushleft}
\end{document}
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Date: 8-SEP-1988 17:19:52 GMT -01:00 (BST)
From: CHAA006@UK.AC.RHBNC.VAXA
To: ABBOTTP@UK.AC.ASTON.KIRK
Subject: Draft TeX output from IBM PC/AT to low-cost printer.
Sender: JANET"CHAA006@UK.AC.RHBNC.VAXA" <CHAA006@UK.AC.RHBNC.VAXA>
Message-Id: <20E00E8E_000A31A4.009189144C49C7A0$36_10@UK.AC.RHBNC.VAXA>
Originally-to: @UK-TEX
Originally-from:CHAA006 "Philip Taylor (RHBNC) <P.Taylor@Uk.Ac.Rhbnc.Vaxb>"
Mailer: Janet_Mailshr V3.1 (19-Aug-1988)
Although at RHBNC we normally output to an LN03S or an LN03R, or to
the ULCC Linotronic-300, we have a major TeX user who is about to
buy a fairly low-cost printer (about 500 pounds sterling). I
would be very interested to learn if anyone in the UK-TeX community
regularly proofs to such a device, from an IBM PC or clone, and
if so, the printer and driver used, and the performance and quality.
Many thanks in advance.
** Phil.
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!! Files of interest [public]000aston.readme
!! [public]000directory.list
!! [public]000directory_dates.list
!! [public]000directory.size
!! [public]000last30days.files
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!! Editor - I have a tape labelled TeX 2.9 LaTeX 2.09 Metafont 1.3
!! Unix 4.2/3BSD VAX SUN 2/3 Pyramid Seqeunt SYS V: 3B2 Tar 1600 bpi blocked
!! 20 1 file dated 26 may 1988 (from washington.edu).
!!
!! I have the facilty to copy this tape for anyone who sends the following
!! 1 2400 tape with return labels AND RETURN postage.
!!
!! Send to
!!
!! P Abbott
!! Computing Service
!! Aston University
!! Aston Triangle
!! Birmingham B4 7ET
!!
!! A VMS backup of the archive requires 2 (two ) 2400' tapes at 6250bpi.
!! Remaining details as above.
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!! Replies/submissions to info-tex@uk.ac.aston please
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