[4026] in Release_7.7_team
Re: Plan for moving tetex to a locker
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (William Cattey)
Sun Sep 21 02:53:13 2003
Date: Sun, 21 Sep 2003 02:53:09 -0400
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Cc: William Cattey <wdc@mit.edu>, release-team@mit.edu
To: Greg Hudson <ghudson@mit.edu>
From: William Cattey <wdc@MIT.EDU>
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I agree with your point about StarOffice. But I think we should
approach the issue NOT as the logical inconsistency between asking TeX
to be available when disconnected though it is less important than
StarOffice. I think we need to approach the issue as a problem of
getting StarOffice available when offline because it is important!
-wdc
On Sunday, September 21, 2003, at 02:36 AM, Greg Hudson wrote:
> 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.
>
