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\title{The \UKTUG}
\author{edited by Peter Abbott\\\texttt{uktug-enquiries@tex.ac.uk}}
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\section*{The 1996--97 \ukt\ committee}
\begin{tabular}{lp{2in}}
R.~Fairbairns & Chair\\
P.~Abbott & Treasurer and \\ & Membership Secretary\\
D.~P.~Carlisle & Committee Secretary\\
M.~Clark & Meetings Secretary\\
% & \BV\ editor\\
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K.~Bazargan; S.~P.~Q.~Rahtz; M.~D.~Wooding.


\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.

Please add \pounds1.50 for the first book and 50p for each book after
the first on the same order, for despatch to a single address

%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.
All books  will be routed through \ukt. \emph{In all cases} please
notify Peter Abbott
by email, phone, fax or letter when books are delivered. This means
that provided the book(s) are in stock, it will normally take at least a week
from receipt of order to delivery of the book(s).

\section*{Obtaining \TeX}

\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 \texttt{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}, produced \TeX-Live,
a plug-and-play \acro{CD}-\acro{ROM} based on Thomas Esser's \textrm{te}\TeX{}
distribution.
As it is formatted according to \acro{ISO} 9660, the platform-independent
files can, in principle, be read on all operating systems which can
deal with that format.

Unix executables for the following platform/operating system
combinations are included: Digital Alpha-OSF 3.2, Alpha-Linux and MIPS
Ultrix, Hewlett
Packard HPUX (9.05 and 10.20), Intel i386 and i686 Linux, and i586
FreeBSD 2.2, Multi-architecture NextStep 3, MIPS IRIX (4.0.5, 5.3 and 6.3),
IBM RS6000 AIX (3.2.5 and 4.1.1) Sparc Solaris (2.4 and 2.5), SunOS
4.1.3 and Linux.  In addition, there are executables of the Amiga and
Win32 ports of Web2C.

For full details see the article in \BV\ 6.5/6.

The \acro{CD} is available free of charge to members of \ukt\ and to
non-members at \pounds25.  Order the disk from Peter
Abbott; see the section `\acro{PC} and Mac disks' for details.

%\subsection*{Unix tapes}
%The group no longer offers Unix tapes: we recommend the \TeX{} Live
%\acro{CD} to Unix users.

\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.  (Note: at the time of
printing this edition, \ukt\ has no stocks of this disc: a new edition
is expected soon.)


\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. may 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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