TDS

[Kurt Hornik]

>>>>> On Wed, 3 Jul 1996 10:30:01 +0200,
>>>>> Ulrik Vieth <vieth@thphy.uni-duesseldorf.de> said:

> Kurt Hornik:
>> Hi,
>> Is there any easy way of obtaining state-of-the-art information on the
>> TeX Directory Standard and Web2c 7?  (I tried the TDS mailing list
>> archive, but could not access anything later than late October 1995.)

> Hi, 
> thanks for your interest in the work of the TWG-TDS.  Concerning
> state-of-the-art information, I'd like to point the following:

> 1.) The latest official TDS draft (version 0.999 as of November 1995)
>     should be available on CTAN archvies (e.g. ftp.dante.de from Austria)  
>     in the directory tex-archive/tds/draft-standard.  This is more-or-less 
>     the final version as published in TUGboat 16#4.  Nothing has changed
>     since then and it isn't clear if there'll ever be a final version 1.0.

> 2.) Concerning mailing list archives: If the official archives at SHSU.EDU
>     are unreliable (Did you also try FILESERV requests by E-Mail?),
>     I'd recommend to try some other unofficial archive sites maintained
>     by some of the working group members.  One of these sites (maintained
>     by Phil Taylor at vms.rhbnc.ac.uk) is listed in the TDS draft itself.

>     My own private archives (not listed there) are availabe via WWW from

>       http://www.thphy.uni-duesseldorf.de/~vieth/subjects/tex/projects/tds-mail/

>     Note however, that most of the discussion since the release of
>     version 0.999 has been centered around administrative issues 
>     such as converting the TDS draft to other formats (e.g. HTML) 
>     or producing a TDS CD (see http://www.tug.org/texlive.html).  
>     Very few real organizational issues have been discussed since then.

> Hope this helps,
> Ulrik Vieth.

> (Just speaking for myself as a group member, not for TWG-TDS in
> general.)

Ulrik:

THanks for the info.

Best,
-k