# Hypertext Help with LaTeX
Hypertext LaTeX Help files

If you find Hypertext Help with LaTeX to be useful, you are welcome to obtain the complete set of files and install them on your own machine. Retrieval and installation instructions are given below. They may be installed for use either with a webserver, which will ease network traffic and probably give you faster access, or they may be installed as local files which may be "read" with an HTML viewer, such as Mosaic, Cello, Lynx, Netscape, etc. without the necessity of a network connection.

To facilitate off-network usage, the files generally have only local (within the same directory) hypertext links. All links to "external" URLs, including much LaTeX information available on the Web, have been restricted to one file in this set other than the current one.

Although it is not required, if you make these files available on a public Web server, please send a note to webmaster@giss.nasa.gov so that we can add you to the list of mirror sites.

The files are available via anonymous ftp as a Unix-compressed tar file (about 125 KByte) or gzipped tar file (about 85 KByte). Your Web browser can probably retrieve the files via the above link, or they can be retrieved by anonymous ftp to ftp.giss.nasa.gov. Login as anonymous and give your e-mail address as the password, then switch to binary mode and download the file by issuing the commands:

      bin
      cd pub/sgreen/latex
      get filename.tar.Z

or

      bin
      cd pub/sgreen/latex
      get filename.tar.gz

After downloading the file on your local machine, issue the Unix commands:

       uncompress filename.tar.Z
       tar -xf filename.tar

or

       gunzip filename.tar.gz
       tar -xf filename.tar

(Note: some Web software, such as Mosaic, will automatically uncompress the file after retrieving it, in which case save it as `filename.tar` and execute only the `tar -xf` line above.) This will create a subdirectory named `latex` in your current directory which contains the complete set of html files and which requires about 1 MByte of disk space. The "Introduction" file is `index.html` and the Table of Contents page is `ltx-2.html`.

You may rename or move the entire `latex` subdirectory if desired; all file references are local to this directory so links should continue to work.

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