looking for Tomas Rokicki's TeX-to-C 1987
Peter Flynn
peter at silmaril.ie
Thu Apr 25 01:14:54 CEST 2019
On 25/04/2019 00:06, Karl Berry wrote:
> I am looking for the original Tomas Rokicki's TeX-to-C from 1987
>
> Out of curiosity ... why?
>
> according to
> http://ftp.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/historic/systems/unix/TeX2.9/tex82/COPYING.POLICY
> It should be here
> http://ftp.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/historic/systems/unix/TeX2.9/tex82/
>
> Well, unfortunately, the Unix TeX tape from 1988 was apparently not
> dumped in its entirety. I doubt any of the original mag tapes are still
> around, or that they would be readable, or that there's any equipment to
> read them. At least, I don't know of any way to go down that road.
FWIW if the tape *does* exist and it's a QIC (quarter-inch cassette)
tape, I have a drive here that works.
Peter
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