{"id":30,"date":"2008-11-09T23:04:56","date_gmt":"2008-11-09T22:04:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lendl.priv.at\/blog\/2008\/11\/09\/dusting-off-old-files\/"},"modified":"2026-01-26T12:16:54","modified_gmt":"2026-01-26T11:16:54","slug":"dusting-off-old-files","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lendl.priv.at\/blog\/2008\/11\/09\/dusting-off-old-files\/","title":{"rendered":"Dusting off old files"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Today I was trying to free up the IDE disk of my old PC to be used inside an USB enclosure as external disk for our laptops. This is pure archeology: backups of prehistoric home-directories are contained in disk-images of slightly less ancient hardware. Some of the files are there in duplicates, as I made backup copies long time ago.<\/p>\n<p>One of the more interesting things I stumbled upon were the files containing my master thesis in Mathematics. That document was written in LaTeX and handed in in 1996. I haven&#8217;t touched TeX for a long time now and had no idea whether my files from back then would still work on a current Linux box. <\/p>\n<p>So I installed the Ubuntu LaTeX packages on my laptop to a) test the TeX processing and to check how good the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cse.ohio-state.edu\/~gurari\/TeX4ht\/mn.html\">current LaTeX to HTML conversion tools<\/a> work. <\/p>\n<p>Everything worked surprisingly smooth except for a non-standard package I used to format and include C source code: tgrind.<\/p>\n<p>It seems like the current version is no longer compatible to what I used back then, at least it doesn&#8217;t define the \\tagrind macro. Luckily I had the full disk image of my old box, thus I could copy in the missing <a href=\"\/diplomarbeit\/tgrind.sty\">style<\/a> and <a href=\"\/diplomarbeit\/tgrindmac.tex\">macro<\/a> files.<\/p>\n<p>Adding them to my TeX distribution made everything work. The speed on current hardware is not bad, too: a complete TeX run takes only a third of a second on my laptop. Well, the 486DX2-66 I used back then was a magnitude or two slower.<\/p>\n<p>So here are the results:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"\/diplomarbeit\/diplomarbeit.pdf\">PDF Version<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"\/diplomarbeit\/htlatex\/\">Plain HTML Version<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"\/diplomarbeit\/xhmlatex\/\">XHTML \/ Math-ML Version<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today I was trying to free up the IDE disk of my old PC to be used inside an USB enclosure as external disk for our laptops. This is pure archeology: backups of prehistoric home-directories are contained in disk-images of slightly less ancient hardware. Some of the files are there in duplicates, as I made [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-30","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-life"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lendl.priv.at\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lendl.priv.at\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lendl.priv.at\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lendl.priv.at\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lendl.priv.at\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lendl.priv.at\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1036,"href":"https:\/\/lendl.priv.at\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30\/revisions\/1036"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lendl.priv.at\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lendl.priv.at\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lendl.priv.at\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}