[OS X TeX] Installing packages

[Jon Breitenbucher]

On Jun 4, 2004, at 3:22 PM, William F. Adams wrote:

> On Friday, June 4, 2004, at 11:47  AM, Gerben Wierda wrote:
>
>> So, when I am going to look into this, I will only do it if it can be 
>> done without adding massive maintenance in yet another place (namely 
>> mine). If it can't be done without generating a situation where 
>> humans have to do synchronizing between several distributions, I will 
>> do it. That way you produce something that does not break as soon as 
>> people support dwindles.
>
> Are there tools for Mac OS X to open up .cab files?
>
> If so, it seems to me that we could just vampire off of the MikTeX 
> setup (download the .cab, open it up, convert the line endings, put 
> things in the appropriate places et voila!
>
> William
>

I believe that StuffItExpander will expand cab files. I can try this 
when I get home or someone else can give it a shot.
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Jon Breitenbucher
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Department of Mathematics and Computer Science
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