[OS X TeX] Recommendations for downloading LaTEX

[Jan Hegewald]

Hello,

Am 30.01.2005 um 21:24 schrieb Maarten Sneep:

[...]
>> because I have fast Internet access only on a Unix box (and a Wintel 
>> box, but that´s another story...), I download the i-packages from 
>> Gerben´s ftp server and install them on my Mac locally.
>
> I thought of suggesting that option, but you'd be downloading far more 
> than you actually need (like the TL2003, TL2004 and TL2005 
> distributions that are part of the complete package). Downloading some 
> 160 MB, where 'only' some 55 MB is needed, I'd only recommend that 
> technique on broadband, not on dial-up.

I only download the i-packages I want, not the whole tree.


--Jan--

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