[texhax] Old version of plain.tex and hyphen.tex

Reinhard Kotucha reinhard.kotucha at web.de
Tue Jul 3 01:36:40 CEST 2007


Brian O'Toole writes:

 > I am trying to recreate an old version of our software that assumes an old 
 > version of Knuth's plain.tex (together with the version of hyphen.tex that 
 > accompanied it).  I have searched the Internet for plain.tex Version 
 > 3.1415926 (together with hyphen.tex) with no success.  Does anyone have a 
 > copy of these two files that they could email back to me?

I found it on the TeXLive-7 CD (issued in 2002).

  \def\fmtname{plain}\def\fmtversion{3.1415926} % identifies the current format

It's now on my server (plain.tex and hyphen.tex):

  http://ms25.ath.cx/plaintex-3.1415926.zip

To be honest, I suppose that the changes Knuth made in 3.14159265 are
quite small and it is unlikely that they break existing software.

Regards,
  Reinhard

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