While the main portion of TeX Live (the fonts, macros and documentation) can be used on any TeX system, the set of runnable binaries is not suitable for everyone. To make the disk as widely useful as possible, we have included the original distributions of six complete TeX systems: two for Macintosh (OzTeX and CMacTeX), one for Windows 95 (MikTeX), one for DOS and OS/2 (emTeX), and two for DOS or Windows (djgpp or wingut),
This is a DJGPP port by Eli Zaretskii (eliz@is.elta.co.il) of TeX, Web2c 7.2, DVI drivers, and related utilities. The programs are the same versions as, and behave in an identical way to, the other Web2c 7.2-based systems, for Unix, Amiga and Win32, on this CD-ROM. In the next release of TeX Live, we hope to have them runnable directly from the CD-ROM.
The package is supplied as a compressed .zip archive, which is intended to be unpacked to one of your disk drives. This should minimize potential problems due to how long file names are stored on the CD-ROM and supported by various CD drivers on different operating systems.
Create a directory for the TeX packages and change your current working directory to be it. For example:
In the following description, we assume that the root of your TeX installation isc:\texlive. However,
there's nothing magic in that name; you can use any other name you wish. (In particular, those who
have other DJGPP ports installed would probably want to use the root of their DJGPP installation
tree as the place to install TeX.)
Now insert the TeX Live CD-ROM into your drive, wait until the LED on the drive goes off, unzip the package. For your convenience, we provide a free program for that purpose: InfoZip's UnZip; it is in the same directory where the compressed archive is held. We recommend using that unzip.exe since it will automatically support long file names on Windows 9X, where the compressed programs support them as well.
Assuming your CD-ROM drive letter is F:, type the following from the DOS prompt (if you are doing this on Windows, open a DOS box and type from there):
If you want to use any other unzip program, be sure to invoke it with an option that causes it to preserve directory hierarchy as recorded in the zip file (e.g., for PKUNZIP, use the -d switch). Also, be sure to use a program that supports long file names if you intend to use TeX programs on Windows 9X.
Finally, add the directory c:\texlive\bin to your PATH, and define variables for reading
documentation:
That's all! You are now ready to run the programs. Some additional details can be found in systems/msdos/djgpp/README.djgpp
OzTeX is a Macintosh TeX system created by Andrew Trevorrow. The OzTeX application includes TeX, INITEX, a DVI previewer, a DVI-to-PostScript translator (Tom Rokicki's dvips) and a driver for QuickDraw printers. OzTeX also includes dvidvi, dvicopy, and Angus Duggan's PostScript utilities: psbook, psnup, psselect and pstops.
The version of dvips included in OzTeX supports HyperTeX and the partial downloading of PostScript
fonts. It has also been enhanced for Mac users in a number of ways: Standard Mac PostScript fonts
(LWFN files) can be downloaded, fully or partially; all OzTeX-specific \special commands are
supported, such as the inclusion of PICT/PNTG/EPSF files; the dvips output can be sent directly to the
current printer.
OzTeX's previewer has lots of features to make it easy to proofread DVI files. It can handle PK and
PostScript fonts. Anti-aliasing is supported. Virtual fonts are processed on the fly. The previewer
supports most of the \special commands generated by LaTeX's color, graphics/x and hyperref
packages. It recognizes all dvips-specific \specials and those it cannot handle (like rotation) are
silently ignored.
OzTeX includes all the most popular formats and macro packages: Plain TeX, LaTeX, AMS-TeX, AMS-LaTeX and REVTeX are all installed and ready to run.
OzTeX is easy to extend and customize. A default configuration file is read when OzTeX starts up; it contains a host of parameters for setting up search paths, telling TeX how much memory to allocate for various arrays, specifying which TFMs are for PostScript fonts, etc. A Config menu makes it easy to load other config files at any time. And for even more flexibility, OzTeX can automatically load a specified config file just before typesetting, previewing or printing.
The usual assortment of TeX-related programs are provided with OzTeX, including OzMF, a Mac implementation of METAFONT , and OzMP, a Mac port of John Hobby's MetaPost program for producing PostScript pictures using a METAFONT-like language.
The following programs are also distributed with OzTeX, courtesy of their authors; BibTeX by Vince Darley; MakeIndex by Rick Zaccone; Excalibur, a TeX/LaTeX spelling checker, by Rick Zaccone and Robert Gottshall; and AlphaLite, a TeX/LaTeX-savvy text editor, by Pete Keleher.
For the latest information about OzTeX, keep an eye on the Web page at the URL http://www.kagi.com/authors/akt/oztex.html.
An even better way to keep up-to-date is to join the oztex-info mailing list. To subscribe, send some e-mail to majordomo@maths.adelaide.edu.au with the following line in the body of the message:
OzTeX is distributed as shareware, so you are welcome to try it out before paying the registration fee. The individual fee is US$30 and the site fee is US$300. See the "Shareware Fee" item in OzTeX's Help menu for details on how to pay. E-mail support is provided to registered users. Send all queries and comments to Andrew Trevorrow (akt@kagi.com).
CMacTeX is an implementation of TeX for the Macintosh by Thomas Kiffe (tom@tkiffe.com). It includes the three main parts of any TeX installation---TeX, Metafont and dvips. It also includes two DVI previewers, a utility for printing DVI files on a non PostScript printer, a PostScript previewer and numerous utilities for manipulating TeX fonts. Full support for the automatic generation of pk font files is an integral part of the distribution. CMacTeX can be configured to work in an integrated fashion with BBEdit, Alpha, and MPW. It will run on any Macintosh with 8 MB of RAM and System 7.
CMacTeX is shareware. The registration fee is US$35 for a single-user license and US$150 for a site license.
Installation instructions can be found in the file systems/macintosh/cmactex/ReadMeFirst
MiKTeX 1.10 is an implementation by Christian Schenk (cschenk@berlin.snafu.de) of TeX- and Metafont-related utilities for Windows NT and Windows 95. The MiKTeX distribution includes TeX; LaTeX2e (December '97) including standard packages; Metafont; MetaPost; dvips MakeIndex; BIBTeX; YAP (Yet Another Previewer); TeXware (dvitype etc.); Metafontware (gftopk, etc.); psutils (psselect, pstops etc.); and DVIcopy.
Installation instructions can be found in the file systems/win32/miktex/README.TXT
The emTeX distribution for DOS and OS/2 is written by Eberhard Mattes (mattes@azu.informatik.uni-stuttgart.de). It includes the TeX typesetter, the Metafont font generation program, printer drivers, screen previewers, and tools like BIBTeX and MakeIndex. It also includes the macro packages LaTeX 2.09 and LaTeX2e. Fonts are included as pixel files and Metafont source files.
Installation instructions can be found in the file systems/msdos/emtex/README.ENG.