Message-ID: <3A1D0AE3.2E97AB5E@hursley.ibm.com> Date: Thu, 23 Nov 2000 12:17:39 +0000 From: Derek Fountain <fountai@hursley.ibm.com> Subject: Do I need Tex Disk space is getting a bit tight on my laptop these days and I was looking for packages I don't use which I could delete to free up some space. I came across TeX - all 75MB of it. I never use TeX and I don't know anything about it. I understnd the file format is a standard, but not for me! I wouldn't know a TeX document if it bit me. The question is, is TeX important for other tools? If I delete it will I hit problems later when other utilites I do use suddenly want it but can't use it? I ask because many years ago I deleted Ghostscript thinking I didn't use it. The result was not funny. What, in short, assumes TeX is on the disk?