nucpc
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Posted: Aug. 05 2004,16:05 |
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Hi ripcrd6,
Some of the packages you were asking about are indeed rather strange
and, with the exception of latex, designed to be very light and were primarily
for live use (and probably by old Solaris users only). Most, f2c defnitely excepted,
should go down to HD without problem but I'd try and use them live/frugal primarily.
For your questions; Latex, rather clumbsily needs a script ran, but it comes
with examples; if your latex works you'll have plenty of test cases for gv;
xmgr and xv are for commandline use (although xv could probably do with being
iconized).
f2c might be best avoided.
Some folk use DSL to resurrect old hardware. I use f2c to resurrect old software;
I've stacks of old scientific programs that would be hell on earth to rewrite
and ensure they gave the right final numbers all of the time (that takes years of
use and careful debugging). f2c often zips through these programs no trouble at
all.
However many of these will not be of general/any interest and I've no objections,
whatsoever, to anything of mine being removed from repository.
All the best.
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