Re: Thank you, Eberhard Mattes!

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On 04/07/2016 11:26 PM, JohnF wrote:
[...]
> Question: Is there some tl-lite distribution, or some install-tl 
> script that >>automatically<< lightens it up? Slackware has stuck 
> with teTeX because tl is too "heavy". While it's easy enough to run
> install-tl and manually choose components, it would be nice to have a
> maintained install-tl-lite script so that the Slackware team could
> easily package tl with their linux distribution. I'd guess they'd
> want something in the ~250MB size (that's about what their teTeX
> uses).

I believe that if you install texlive from (eg Debian) repos, as
distinct from texlive-full, that is pretty much what you get, but I
always install texlive-full myself, so I can't guarantee that.

I do remember using both PCTeX (which is indeed still going strong) and
emTeX in the short period between VAX and Unix when I actually used a
DOS system. The whole thing fitted on a few floppies, I suspect. I think
I may still have a copy installed on one of those mid-199s HardCard™
20Mb hard-disk-on-a-card systems that I discovered lurking in the office
a year or so ago. I stuck it in a Windows PC and the disk was working
fine and I noticed WordStar 1512, PC-Write, and TeX were on it.

///Peter

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Re: Thank you, Eberhard Mattes! jfine2358@gmail.com - 2016-04-07 02:36 -0700
  Re: Thank you, Eberhard Mattes! JohnF <john@please.see.sig.for.email.com> - 2016-04-07 22:26 +0000
    Re: Thank you, Eberhard Mattes! Peter Flynn <peter@silmaril.ie> - 2016-04-07 23:46 +0100
      TeXLive on Slackware (was: Re: Thank you, Eberhard Mattes!) JohnF <john@please.see.sig.for.email.com> - 2016-04-08 23:12 +0000
        Re: TeXLive on Slackware (was: Re: Thank you, Eberhard Mattes!) Henrik Carlqvist <Henrik.Carlqvist@deadspam.com> - 2016-04-11 05:03 +0000
          Re: TeXLive on Slackware John Forkosh <forkosh@panix.com> - 2016-04-11 07:11 +0000
            Re: TeXLive on Slackware Joost Kremers <joost.m.kremers@gmail.com> - 2016-04-11 08:59 +0000
              Re: TeXLive on Slackware jfbu <jfREMOVEbu@free.fr> - 2016-04-11 11:41 +0200
                Re: TeXLive on Slackware JohnF <john@please.see.sig.for.email.com> - 2016-04-13 02:20 +0000
            Re: TeXLive on Slackware Henrik Carlqvist <Henrik.Carlqvist@deadspam.com> - 2016-04-11 21:07 +0000
          Re: TeXLive on Slackware (was: Re: Thank you, Eberhard Mattes!) Joost Kremers <joost.m.kremers@gmail.com> - 2016-04-11 08:54 +0000
            Re: TeXLive on Slackware (was: Re: Thank you, Eberhard Mattes!) Henrik Carlqvist <Henrik.Carlqvist@deadspam.com> - 2016-04-11 21:12 +0000
              Re: TeXLive on Slackware Qun-Ying <zhu.qunying@gmail.com> - 2016-04-13 11:13 -0700
                Re: TeXLive on Slackware Henrik Carlqvist <Henrik.Carlqvist@deadspam.com> - 2016-04-13 18:39 +0000
      Re: Thank you, Eberhard Mattes! Dan Luecking <LookInSig@uark.edu> - 2016-04-13 12:52 -0500

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