Date:	Thu, 18 Mar 93 11:10:01 PST
From:	Henry Tieman <henryt AT pcx DOT ncd DOT com>
To:	djgpp AT sun DOT soe DOT clarkson DOT edu
Cc:	henryt AT pcx DOT ncd DOT com
Subject:	Re: The Lost One

Peter Rojsel, <Peter AT maxlab DOT lu DOT se> writes:
>> davisjd AT vuse DOT vanderbilt DOT edu (John Davis) writes on
>> Subject: The Lost One :
>> 
>> >Is there anybody out there that can give me a hint as to how I
>> >can read these .TEX files?  (Please)
>> 
>> You just have to install TeX. It is available in may versions on many ftp 
>> servers. It usually consumes between 5 and 15 megabytes of your harddisk 
>> and takes (at least me and I may be stupid) about 1 days work to find out 
>> that there is no straightforward way to make it run just enough to produce 
>> a postscript file. 
>> 
>> Peter Rojsel, <Peter AT maxlab DOT lu DOT se>

I'm sorry but I don't think that's the only answer.  Most of the .tex
files included in djgpp are emacs texinfo files.  These files are not
quite TeX files and not quite emacs .info files, but the conversion to
either form is not too difficult once the tools work.  On a PC the
conversion to emacs .info format takes the package DEMACS and some
(hacked) elisp files not included in the DEMACS package.  Using info
mode in EMACS is preferable to a paper printout for me, so I don't think
I'll do the TeX conversion.

I hacked on it for a while, never got the conversion to split up the
result into nice sized pieces.  Even though the hack does not create the
same files as a "real" version of emacs, these files are usable under
demacs.

Henry Tieman <henryt AT pcx DOT ncd DOT com>

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