[Info-vax] LaTeX on VMS

[glen herrmannsfeldt]

In comp.os.vms Phillip Helbig---undress to reply <helbig at astro.multiclothesvax.de> wrote:

(snip)
> Much LaTeX development was done on VMS, maybe even Lamport's original 
> LaTeX.  It is a very portable programme, and has existed on VMS for 
> decades.  Hence, there is no need to "port" it.  What might be an issue 
> are incompatibilities which have crept into the distribution.

LaTeX should run on any system that can run TeX.  

In the early days, all TeX work was done in Pascal, but then someone
wrote Web2C and, in the end, it is compiled C code.

The old VMS TeX system used a command definition (CLD if I remember)
to define the commands and arguments to VMS.  That presumably
takes some work to decode inside the program.  Compiling the output
of Web2C would not do that, but still should make a usable system.

Otherwise, does the old VMS TeX source (and changefile) still exist?

-- glen