[Info-vax] LaTeX on VMS

[urbancamo]

On Jun 25, 12:38 am, Peter Flynn <pe... at silmaril.ie> wrote:
> On 24/06/11 19:55, Rich Alderson wrote:
>
> > hel... at astro.multiCLOTHESvax.de (Phillip Helbig---undress to reply)
> > writes:
>
> >> Is anyone here still using LaTeX on VMS?
>
> > Hmm. Never have.
>
> >> If not, is anyone using LaTeX AND VMS?
>
> > I use LaTeX regularly, usually on Macs or Windows, but I still have
> > it installed, and usefully so, on TOPS-20.
>
> Good grief. That was the first system I compiled TeX on; actually
> OLS-20, but it was the same thing: I believe the OLS fork from TOPS-20
> only affected the commandline interface initially, not the OS internals
> -- that came later, by which time I was using VMS, where we needed TeX
> to handle the output from DAPHNE conversions of SGML.
>
> > The VMS system is in the next room over; it might be interesting to
> > install (La)TeX on that VAX under VMS 6.2...
>
> That would probably be a useful thing to do and document (and make
> available, if possible) -- there are still quite a lot of VAXen around.
> Actually there's one in an office on the floor above me, sitting unused
> since a few months ago when the owner retired. I suspect if anyone wants
> it, we can probably arrange that for the cost of the transportation...
>
> ///Peter

I'll second that, even better would be a port of a modern LaTEX system
to VMS - I would be happy to assist if it looks like it might be a
runner.