hey all well thanks to paul(swafford) chris(topher sawtell) and possibly nick(rout) i've a surfeit of tex coming my way.
this is not a complaint but is by way of acknowledging the generosity and helpfullness of this groups members. it's also an acknowledgement of the way i managed to mismanage things. i should have used reply-to-all when responding to the first response i received - that way others would have been aware that someone else was already downloading the images for me. sigh. when will i get it right? however on the bright side i will soon have what i needed and will be able to help out anyone else who needs to get the whole of tex and nothing but the tex. cheers peter ps: is the group still thinking of assembling a collection of .iso's - sort of like a disc library? perhaps we could have some (brief) discussion on this at the meeting?
