X-VM-v5-Data: ([nil nil nil nil nil nil nil nil nil] ["569" "Wed" "11" "November" "1998" "17:21:58" "+0000" "Timothy Murphy" "tim@MATHS.TCD.IE" nil "19" "Re: What is \"base\" LaTeX" "^Date:" nil nil "11" nil "What is \"base\" LaTeX" nil nil nil] nil) Received: from listserv.gmd.de (listserv.gmd.de [192.88.97.1]) by mail.Uni-Mainz.DE (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id SAA11335; Wed, 11 Nov 1998 18:22:08 +0100 (MET) Received: from lsv1.listserv.gmd.de (192.88.97.2) by listserv.gmd.de (LSMTP for OpenVMS v1.1a) with SMTP id <1.A70716EE@listserv.gmd.de>; Wed, 11 Nov 1998 18:22:07 +0100 Received: from RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE by RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE (LISTSERV-TCP/IP release 1.8b) with spool id 407970 for LATEX-L@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE; Wed, 11 Nov 1998 18:22:01 +0100 Received: from salmon.maths.tcd.ie (mmdf@salmon.maths.tcd.ie [134.226.81.11]) by relay.urz.uni-heidelberg.de (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id SAA29524 for ; Wed, 11 Nov 1998 18:21:59 +0100 (MET) Received: from turing.maths.tcd.ie by salmon.maths.tcd.ie with SMTP id ; 11 Nov 98 17:21:59 +0000 (GMT) Received: (from tim@localhost) by turing.maths.tcd.ie (8.8.7/8.8.5) id RAA30918 for LATEX-L@urz.uni-heidelberg.de; Wed, 11 Nov 1998 17:21:58 GMT References: , <199811101724.RAA16684@nag.co.uk> <13896.50277.481367.373287@fell.open.ac.uk> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.93.2i Message-ID: <19981111172158.E30536@maths.tcd.ie> Reply-To: Mailing list for the LaTeX3 project In-Reply-To: <13896.50277.481367.373287@fell.open.ac.uk>; from Chris Rowley on Tue, Nov 10, 1998 at 11:57:23PM +0100 Date: Wed, 11 Nov 1998 17:21:58 +0000 From: Timothy Murphy Sender: Mailing list for the LaTeX3 project To: Multiple recipients of list LATEX-L Subject: Re: What is "base" LaTeX Status: R X-Status: X-Keywords: X-UID: 2863 On Tue, Nov 10, 1998 at 11:57:23PM +0100, Chris Rowley wrote: > (OK, it is possible to > distribute some code packages quite widely to people who have access > to a reasonable compiler and expect it to get configured, compiled, > installed etc reasonably easily). There is nothing in my experience > of the Linux world which is anything like any of this at all; what am > I missing? RPM ? [RedHat's system for distributing packages.] -- Timothy Murphy e-mail: tim@maths.tcd.ie tel: +353-1-2842366 s-mail: School of Mathematics, Trinity College, Dublin 2, Ireland