Date: Sat, 28 Oct 89 14:00:50 PDT From: Joe Weening Subject: ***Announcing the new Stanford TeX archive*** Keywords: Stanford TeX archive As you may have heard, the host Score.Stanford.EDU (a DECsystem-2060) has been retired after 10 years of faithful service to Stanford and the TeX community. The files that were in the directories at Score have been moved to the host Labrea.Stanford.EDU, which is a VAX-11/750 running 4.3 BSD Unix, used mainly as a file repository for the Stanford Computer Science Department. Labrea's Internet address is 36.8.0.47. To get TeX files from Labrea, open an FTP connection and log in as the user "anonymous", with any password. Connect to the directory "tex" (or "pub/tex", they are the same), and you will be at the top level of the TeX distribution directory. The files on Labrea are organized somewhat differently from the way they were on Score. This was done to correspond to the directory organization that Don Knuth is now using for his TeX development work on a Unix system. Files that were specific to Score have mostly been removed. On October 27, new versions of many programs and files were installed on Labrea. These include: TeX version 2.992 (beta release of 3.0) MF version 1.8 (beta release of 2.0) TANGLE version 4 WEAVE version 4 POOLtype version 3 TFtoPL version 3 PLtoTF version 3 GFtoDVI version 3 MFtype version 2 Don Knuth will soon send a message to TeXhax that describes these programs in more detail. If you FTP files from Labrea, please: - schedule major FTP sessions outside of normal working hours - take only the files you need Labrea is not a fast machine, and is easily overloaded by too much FTP traffic. Below is a short description of the TeX subdirectories on Labrea. Note that the copy of the Unix TeX distribution is now several months old; it contains TeX version 2.95 and other programs of similar vintage (late 1988/early 1989). Most people already have this version; if you don't, you probably want to wait until TeX 3.0 is incorporated into Unix TeX. amsfonts AMS Cyrillic and math symbols fonts amstex The AMSTeX macros archive Old files kept for posterity bibtex The BibTeX program and related files cm Metafont sources for the Computer Modern fonts errata Error logs for programs and documentation fonts TFM files for standard (and some non-standard) fonts gf GF font files (for Imagen and Lasewriter) imagen Various files to support Imagen printers latex LaTeX macros, font sources, related files lib Input files read by TeX, Metafont and other programs local Additional unsupported files from Don Knuth ln03 Various files to support LN03 printers mf Metafont source code and documentation mfware Metafont utilities tex TeX source code and documentation texware TeX utilities texhax TeXhax archives tugboat Files for things mentioned in TUGboat unix Unix TeX distribution from University of Washington unsupported Unsupported files from various sources web The WEB system It's possible that in the process of moving things, some files were accidentally removed or transferred incorrectly. If you find any problems with the TeX files on Labrea, please send a message to "tex@labrea.stanford.edu".