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Date:         Thu, 05 Apr 90 10:22:24 CET
From: Rainer Schoepf <BK4@DHDURZ1.bitnet>
Organization: Inst. f. Theor. Physik d. Univ. Heidelberg
Subject:      Re: MakeIndex and an apology
To: LaTeX discussion list <LATEX-L@DHDURZ1.uucp>
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I apologize for sending my makeindex messages via the list.  Today my
fingers are faster than my brains...

There is, however, one remark concerning MakeIndex that I want to
communicate via this list.  One of the deficencies of MakeIndex
is that it is written in C.  That means that there are many people
(especially on mainframes) that are not able to get a working version
of the program.  (Remember that on mainframes, each extra compiler
costs a lot of money.)  My point is this: I think it desirable to
rewrite MakeIndex in terms of WEB, not because I think that WEB is
a better approach, but because those who run TeX have a Pascal system,
and cosequently WEB.

I don't want to start a discussion on this list, I onlywant to bring
this to your attention.

  Rainer