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\title{The \UKTUG}
\author{}
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\section*{Next meeting}
There will be a meeting in the afternoon of 16~October
(after the \acro{AGM}). The theme will be latest developments
in \AllTeX.

\section*{The 1995--96 \ukt\ committee}
\begin{tabular}{lp{2in}}
R.~Fairbairns & Chair\\
P.~Abbott & Treasurer and \\ & Membership Secretary\\
C.~R.~Hewlett & Committee Secretary\\
M.~Clark & Meetings Secretary\\
% & \BV\ editor\\
\end{tabular}

K.~Bazargan; D.~P.~Carlisle;
 A.~S.~A.~\mbox{Jeffrey}; S.~P.~Q.~Rahtz.


\section*{Book Discounts for \protect\ukt\ members}
%The UK \TeX\ User group has been in discussion with a number of
%publishers to arrange discounts on publications which may be of
%interest to members.
We have arrangements with Addison-Wesley for
their well-known \TeX-related publications, and with International
Thomson Publishing to supply any of the very excellent O'Reilly \&
Associates Inc.\ series of books to members.

The agreed list of books, together with the discounted (at least 20\%)
price, is distributed occasionally with \BV, but is always available
from the Treasurer, Peter Abbott.  The quoted price includes the cost
of postage and packing.

%We would like to extend this service to members. If you have contacts
%with the sales and marketing parts of any publisher who publishes
%relevant books, please inform us and we will try to
%arrange something mutually convenient and beneficial.

We are only allowed to offer this service to \textbf{current} members
of the \UKTUG\ and/or members of \acro{TUG}. Please send your
order and cheque (in \acro{UK} \pounds) to  Peter Abbott (address in
\BV\ masthead).
Make cheques payable to `\acro{UKTUG}' please.
Books from Addison-Wesley are delivered direct but books from
O'Reilly will be routed through \ukt. \emph{In all cases} please
notify Peter Abbott
by email, phone, fax or letter when books are delivered.

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\title{Obtaining \TeX}
\author{edited by Carol Hewlett}
\begin{article}
\subsection*{From the network -- CTAN}

The \acro{UK} \TeX\ Archive on \texttt{ftp.tex.ac.uk} is part of the
\acro{CTAN}
(Comprehensive \TeX\ Archive Network) collaborating network of
archives on the Internet organised by the
\TeX\ Users Group.
%The main archives follow the same structure
%and have identical files ({\tt ftp.tex.ac.uk}
%{\tt ftp.shsu.edu}
%and {\tt ftp.dante.de}).

The \acro{CTAN} archives run an enhanced \emph{ftp} server which supports
dynamic compression, uncompression, and archive creation options.
Fetch the top-level file {\tt README.archive-features} for
information.  The server also supports site-defined commands to assist
you. Please read {\tt README.site-commands} for a brief overview.

%Details of where to find public domain, or shareware,
%\TeX\ packages for different machines and operating
%systems are given below.


  Please report any problems with \acro{CTAN} archives via email to
  \texttt{ctan@urz.Uni-Heidelberg.de}.


%\subsection*{CTAN directories}
The main directories which make up \acro{CTAN} are listed below; readers are
referred to Graham Williams' \emph{\TeX{} and \LaTeX{} Catalogue}
which is available from \acro{CTAN} as \path|help/Catalogue/catalogue.html|

{\small
\begin{description}
\item[biblio] bibliography-related files, such as
  \BibTeX.
\item[digests] back issues of \TeX-related periodicals
\item[dviware] contains the various dvi-to-whatever filters and drivers
\item[fonts]  fonts, both sources and  pre-compiled
\item[graphics]utilities and macros related to graphics
\item[help] overviews of the archive and the \TeX\ system
\item[info] files and tutorials which document various aspects of \TeX
\item[indexing] utilities and related files for indexing
\item[language] material for typesetting non-English documents
\item[macros] macros packages for \TeX\ and style files
\item[support]  programs which can be used in support of \TeX
\item[systems] complete system setups, organized by operating
  system
\item[tools] the various archiving tools used on CTAN
\item[web] contains WEB-related files and utilities
\end{description}
}

%\subsection*{CTAN -- CDROM}

\subsection*{Unix -- CD-ROM}
\acro{GUT}enberg and \ukt, in collaboration with \acro{TUG} and
\acro{NTG}, have produced
a plug-and-play \acro{CD}-\acro{ROM} based on Thomas Esser's \textrm{te}\TeX{}
distribution.
As it uses the \acro{ISO} 9660 standard, the platform-independent
files can, in principle, be read on all operating systems which are
compatible with that format.

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.

For full details see the article in \BV\ 6.2.

The \acro{CD} is available to members of \TeX\ user groups at \pounds15
and to non-members at \pounds25. See the section `\acro{PC} and Mac disks'
for ordering details.

\subsection*{Unix tapes}
David Osborne is no longer able to supply Unix \TeX\ tapes,
partly because there is no longer a reliable, up to date, master
to copy.

\subsection*{DOS -- CD-ROM}
\ukt\ distributes the comprehensive 4All\TeX\ \acro{CD}-\acro{ROM},
created by the 
Dutch \TeX\ Users'
Group (\acro{NTG}), now in its 3rd edition. This costs \pounds25 for 2
\acro{CD}s, and is for \acro{DOS} users.


\subsection*{PC and Mac disks}
The \ukt\ distributes an em\TeX\ kit for \acro{PC}s,
and an Oz\TeX\ kit for Macintosh. The cost covers copying and postage
costs, together with the shareware fee for Oz\TeX\ (and other Mac programs)
and Eddi4\TeX.
Each set costs \pounds30,
and is available from Peter Abbott, 1 Eymore Close, Selly Oak,
Birmingham B29~4LB. Cheques must be payable to \lq{}UKTUG\rq{}. Please note
that this service \emph{is available to \ukt\ members only.} Each set
comes with an installation guide, and (at least) full \TeX\ and \MF, a
previewer, a PostScript driver, and \acro{CM} fonts. Two update disks a year
will be sent out automatically, with the current version of \LaTeXe,
and other goodies. A subscription service is available for
subsequent years. In addition, subscribers can request up to 3 disks a
year with any material from the \acro{CTAN} archives, but this will be
supplied \lq{}as is\rq{}, without instructions.

\subsection*{Atari}
Enquiries for \TeX\ for the Atari \acro{ST} etc. can be directed to: The Fast
Club, 7 Musters Road, Nottingham NG2 7PP. Phone 01602 455250, fax 01602
455305. They also supply a variety of \TeX-related software in Atari format.

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