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

[Richard B. Gilbert]

John Reagan wrote:
> "Phillip Helbig---remove CLOTHES to reply" <helbig at astro.multiCLOTHESvax.de> 
> wrote in message news:gjni32$41r$2 at online.de...
>  In the past, many of the LaTeX developers and
>> implementers used VMS (Lamport was working for DEC when he developed
>> LaTeX, remember), but I don't think that is the case today.
> 
> Leslie worked out of the lab in Palo Alto.  I would bet he used an Ultrix 
> system and not a VMS system.  I skimmed though the first few pages of his 
> book and he didn't say what system was used.
> 
> John 
> 
> 

Leslie may have been a Unix type but the VMS versions of TeX/LaTeX 
worked just fine years ago.  I can't say that LaTeX works now!

Used to be you said something like:
# LATEX &PLAIN mumble.tex

That doesn't work on the Unix system I last tried to run TeX/LaTeX on.
I had an old LaTeX file for a paper on "The Art of Debugging" that I 
gave at DECUS about 15 years ago.  I was going to use DVI-to-HTML so I 
could post it on my web page.  I couldn't get it to work and gave up!