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Note: Utah and Stanford both have TOPS-20 systems, so references to
Score generally apply equally to Utah.
The newest version of TeX is now available at Score. The user manual is
called "The TeXbook" by Donald Knuth, publish by Addison-Wesley (13448).
To run TeX at Score, just say "TeX" to the Tops-20 at-sign prompt.
(without the quotes, of course. You're allowed to use any combination
of upper and lower case letters.) You'll get the "**" prompt (as it
explains in the TeXbook) to which you can type the name of a file to
be input (the extension ".TeX" is assumed unless you supply another).
You might prefer to say "TeX FOO" to Tops-20, which has the advantage
that the next time you run TeX, you need only say "TeX", and it will
pretend that you said the same thing as last time. In fact, you can
even say something like "TeX \batchmode \input foo", and TeX will
remember the whole thing for the next time you say "TeX". To make TeX
forget, put a backslash at the end of your command line ("TeX \").
TeX makes two output files: FOO.DVI (the actual output file) and
FOO.LST (called the "log" file in the manual). TeX will help you
print FOO.DVI by filling your line buffer with "TeXSPOOL: FOO.DVI".
If you have the line "DEFINE TeXSPOOL: <TeX>DVIDOV" in your LOGIN.CMD
file, you'll need only to hit <return> to have your output file sent
to the Dover. When it is done, you can delete FOO.PRESS and FOO.DVI.
You may want to do this whole procedure while connected to a scratch
directory, saying TeX <MYNAME>FOO, since TeX always puts DVI and LST
files in the connected directory. See also HELP DVIDOV.
(*Note at Utah: (dvi).)