The "standard" source C version of the TeX system.
Uses the GNU autconfig package to compile and install effortlessly. Simply ./configure; make; make install.
While web2c is the basis of all TeX systems for Unix-like systems, it is not ordinarily used nowadays by anyone other the builders of distributions such as TeXlive. Web2c is not usable as a distribution in its own right.
The authors are Olaf Weber and Karl Berry.
License: gpl Version: 7.5.4 Catalogued: 2006-10-05