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Date:      Wed, 12 Jun 1996 13:51:19 -0400 (EDT)
From:      Chuck Robey <chuckr@Glue.umd.edu>
To:        "Boyd R. Faulkner" <faulkner@asgard.bga.com>
Cc:        questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: tex to text on FreeBSD
Message-ID:  <Pine.OSF.3.91.960612134757.17406C-100000@skipper.eng.umd.edu>
In-Reply-To: <199606121708.MAA01724@utgard.bga.com>

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On Wed, 12 Jun 1996, Boyd R. Faulkner wrote:

> Is there a working solution to producing ascii text documents from latex
> sources under FreeBSD.  I have tried proting dvitty but have met with
> less than success.  Is there a better solution?

Yeah, sure there is, Boyd, but it isn't small.  It's the 
/usr/ports/print/teTeX port, which includes both TeX, LaTeX, and all of 
the ancillary tools.  This ports builds and installs perfectly, and 
doesn't short you on anything, and Bernd Rosauer (I hope I spelled that 
right) works at keeping it current.

All you end up having to do is 'latex <docname>' to get the .dvi file.  I 
have a portscript printer here, so I follow it up with dvips (which is 
also part of teTeX).

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