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\title{Plug and play CD}
\author{Sebastian Rahtz}
\begin{Article}
GUTenberg and UKTUG, in collaboration with TUG and NTG, are producing
a plug-and-play CD-ROM based on Thomas Esser's \textrm{te}\TeX{}
distribution. It adheres to the TDS (\TeX{} Directory Structure) tree
structure (see, for instance, TUGboat 16(4), pages 401--412).

Presently Unix executables for the following platform/operating system
combinations are included: Digital alpha-osf (2.0 and 3.2), Hewlett
Packard hpux (9.01 and 10.01), Intel i386 bsdi2.0, freebsd (2.0.5 and
2.1.0) netbsd (1.0 and 1.1), Intel i486 (linux and linuxaout), m68k
(linux, linuxoldld, and nextstep3), mips (irix 5.2, 5.3 and ultrix4.4)
IBM rs6000 (aix3.2 and aix4.1.1) Sparc Solaris (2.4 and 2.5) and Sunos
4.1.3.

As the CD-ROM uses the ISO 9660 standard, the platform-independent
files can, in principle be read on all operating systems which are
compatible with that format. To preserve the complete Unix/Posix file
system information the file tree was recorded with the Rock Ridge
extensions, so that long filenames are honoured. Some operating
systems, most notably MS-DOS, do not support these extensions, so that
only the ISO 9660 filenames are used, but with this limitation, the
files are readable on all systems. At present the complete \LaTeX{}
Dec. 1995, patch level 2 base and all contributed files are included,
plus the most-used font families (CM, DC 1.2, TC, AMS, Euler, psnfss).
We plan to publish an updated CD-ROM twice a year (more or less
coordinated with new \LaTeX{} releases), and we hope to add more
packages and fonts in the next issues.

The complete source of the te\TeX{} package is included, which has the
source of \TeX, \MF, and all the \TeX{} utilities. Documentation for
all of the macro packages on the CD-ROM is included in DVI and PDF
format, as well as the original source. A large fraction of the
documentation has also been converted to HTML.

The CD-ROM will be officially presented on May 29th in Nanterre
(Paris), where GUTenberg organises a seminar on \TeX{} distributions.
The CD will be available to members of \TeX\ user groups at \pounds15
and to non-members at \pounds25, through the normal channels.


\end{Article}

