[pdftex] pdftex installation on aix4

[Hans Hagen]

At 05:07 PM 4/9/2002 +0200, Luca Bortot wrote:
>>you must be joking, tetex is the de factor standard unix distribution, so 
>>if it was not longer supported the tex community would be in big 
>>troubles; if you go to the tug home page you will find tex live links, 
>>which has recent tetex stuff in it
>
>it looks like mine was just a (wrong) thought.
>Maybe, ordering the live cd there I would get a more recent release.

just become a user group member and you'll get them automatically [maybe 
guiseppe can tell you about an italian user group]

>I just looked at online distributions, and tug.org links to ctan too, and 
>at ctan there is a HUGE mirror database which contains a lot of dead links 
>(I needed one day to find a mirror with no "file not found" messages...), 
>and still the latest version is two years old and contains pdftex 13d...
>I've read somewhere that tetex guys think pdftex evolves too quickly to 
>keep tetex up-to-date with it.

isn't there a link to the dante server (which has a cdrom image)

>Still, do you know where can I get a recent (binary?) distribution of 
>pdftex (not tetex)?

Hans


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