[4024] in Release_7.7_team
Re: Plan for moving tetex to a locker
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Greg Hudson)
Sun Sep 21 02:36:34 2003
From: Greg Hudson <ghudson@MIT.EDU>
To: William Cattey <wdc@mit.edu>
Cc: release-team@mit.edu
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Date: Sun, 21 Sep 2003 02:36:25 -0400
On Sun, 2003-09-21 at 02:26, William Cattey wrote:
> What can we offer laptop Athena users of 9.3 so that they'll be able to
> run TeX when disconnected?
The local-lockers framework would serve. (And it even wouldn't waste
much space, since the locker is about 220MB of data files and only 10MB
of executables for each platform.)
It's unclear to me how important it is to be able to run latex in a
situation where you can't print. I would say that it's much more
important to be able to run stuff like Star Office when disconnected,
and we don't have that.
