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From: wunder@dfv.rwth-aachen.de (Marcus Wunderlich)
Subject: Re: slitex for SLS 1.0
Date: Sun, 25 Apr 1993 21:10:28 GMT

bone@uncledad.nwscc.sea06.navy.mil (Mike Bone) writes:

>I've installed SLS 1.0 and I wanted to use the slitex macros for TeX. I noticed that the slitex.tex file is present but not the slitex executable. Does anyone know if I can get slitex running short of getting the source code?

>Mike Bone (bone@uncledad.nwscc.sea06.navy.mil)

Hi Mike,

slitex is not really a binary but a short shell script with only one
line like this:

        tex \&splain "$1"
        
This invokes tex with the format file splain.fmt.

Hope that helps, Marcus

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