From: hank@ducvax.auburn.edu
Newsgroups: comp.archives
Subject: [comp.text.tex] Re: emTeX
Message-ID: <1991Oct26.073935.13362@agate.berkeley.edu>
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In article <1991Oct25.210248.23595@unx.sas.com>, sasjzc@dev.sas.com (James Cox) writes:
> I have been using LaTeX at work on UNIX for several years, but I would like the 
> ability to do things on my PC at home.  I just started reading this group, but
> it appears that emTeX is recognized as a good version for the PC?  Is this
> shareware, freeware, or a sold product?  If it is sold, what is the cost?
> Where can I get it?  
> 
> Note:  I have access to the net for newsgroups and email, but I cannot FTP to 
> a node on the net to download anything.

emTeX can be obtained by ftp from
msdos.archive.umich.edu  in  msdos/TeX/emTeX

There are beta-release versions available at
Original source: 129.69.1.12
rusmv1.rus.uni-stuttgart.de  in  soft/tex/machines/pc/emtex

The beta-release version of bigtex appears to be significantly faster than
the older btex286 (at least in my somewhat limited testing), provided you
have some extended (or expanded or upper memory) available. I have tested 
using only XMS memory.  There is a beta-release 386 version (a bigtex) which
appears to be as fast as the regular, non-bigtex versions (again, this is after
a somewhat limited test).

sbTeX is another excellent TeX, but emTeX appears to be able to work better 
with limited memory, and the viewer in the emTeX package is excellent.

It is my understanding that mail-servers exist for at least the german site, 
but I use ftp only.
--darrel hankerson hank@ducvax.auburn.edu