On Thu, Oct 01, 1998 at 08:43:10AM -0700, Stephen Zander wrote: > >>>>> "Branden" == Branden Robinson <branden@purdue.edu> writes: > Branden> That and the fact that you really can expect to find GNU > Branden> emacs and TeX on just about any Unix system in the world, > Branden> regardless of vendor, which is part of the definition of > Branden> the standard priority. > > Show me where, in the shipped versions of AIX, Solaris, HP-UX, > SGI.... (you get the picture) there exists an emacs package *or* a Tex > package. Well, I guess Purdue spoiled me. They had things set up so that TeX and emacs were always around on all their Unices, at least on all the general-purpose machines I encountered. They didn't always stay on the bleeding edge of the releases, but the stuff was there... -- G. Branden Robinson | A committee is a life form with six or Purdue University | more legs and no brain. branden@purdue.edu | -- Robert Heinlein http://www.ecn.purdue.edu/~branden/ |
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