[Info-vax] LaTeX on VMS

[Phillip Helbig undress to reply]

I'm still chugging along with 3.14159.  When occasionally a package is 
missing, I download it.  However, my LaTeX installation on VMS is 
getting long in the tooth, almost 20 years old now.  So much has changed 
since then that it would probably be a good idea to do a fresh 
installation, rather than try to upgrade it.  Back in the day, there was 
[TEXMF] from Ralf Gärtner on the freeware CD.

Presumably it is just a few executables which are VMS specific, while 
all of the style files, classes, documentation and so on should be 
platform-independent, as well as the fonts.  (Better fonts are probably 
the most important thing for me.  I've always found font installation to 
be rather tricky.)

These days, with disks so cheap (10 cents per GB or whatever), is there 
any reason not to have EVERYTHING in a LaTeX installation?  If so, I 
could just unpack that.  Probably my old executables should still work, 
but I would like to have newer ones, preferably compiled and linked on 
my system with a sensible build procedure.

Does anyone have a relatively new LaTeX installation on VMS?  How easy 
would it be for me to get it?