[Info-vax] up-to-date version of LaTeX on VMS

[Robin Fairbairns]

 helbig at astro.multiCLOTHESvax.de (Phillip Helbig---remove CLOTHES to reply) writes:
>rf10 at cl.cam.ac.uk (Robin Fairbairns) writes: 
>> for auld lang syne i would love to help (though my coding expertise is
>> a little rusty -- as a sysadmin i write only scripts most of the
>> time).  trouble is, i've no access to a vms system...
>> 
>> note: 1) and no room in the house for one
>
>I don't know how long you've been away from VMS, but there ARE small VMS 
>machines!

well, i started on vax 11/780 galway number 7[*], and the last vms
machine i used was an alpha that was bigger than all 4 pcs i have in
my office.

but my house is *very* cramped ...

>>       2) and little spare time anyway...
>
>Not much one can do about that.

indeed ;-)

[*] i "managed"[**] the software department at the time, and i wrote a
justification for the purchase that the managing director thought was
excellent, and i thought was deeply dubious.  the technical director
couldn't understand how i could possibly justify 256 kb (i think it
was) given that we had 128 kb on the pdp-11 and the vax used virtual
memory.  we actually purchased (wait for it...) 768 kb!!!

[**] insofar as it was managed at all...
-- 
Robin Fairbairns, Cambridge