[tex-k] TeK Sources: Versions

[ulrik.vieth at arcor.de]

web2c-6.1 dates back to around 1994-95.  That's from the last century, indeed.

For furthere reference, see ftp://ftp.tug.org/historic/systems/web2c/

The last version of web2c distributed individually was web2c-7.5.4 from 2005.
After that, there were no more *.tar.gz sources bundles, only svn checkouts
from the tex-live repository.

In any case, it is not a good practice to start from arbitray C sources 
you found somewhere.  These are intermediate files generated from 
the original WEB sources after applying a change file (and obviously
someone hacked somehting, which behaves different from normal.)

Regards, Ulrik
(keeper of the historic archive)


----- Original Nachricht ----
Von:     Jay F Shachter <jay at m5.chicago.il.us>
An:      martin at oneiros.de (Martin Schr?der)
Datum:   06.09.2011 16:56
Betreff: [tex-k] TeK Sources: Versions

> Centuries ago, Nostradamus predicted that Martin_Schröder would write on Tue
> Sep  6 02:14:04 2011:
> 
> > 
> > 
> > TeX from the last century? Or TeX 2.x?
> > 
> > Best
> >    Martin
> > 
> > 
> 
> It was version 3.14159.  Knuth was offering $327.68 to the first
> person who discovered a bug.  The web source (tex.web.3.14159) was
> processed (first by tangle and then by) web2c 6.1.
> 
> 
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