to use TeX, you'll need to do the following:
add /tex/bin to your PATH (in .cshrc)
add /tex/man to your MANPATH (in .login)
then tex, latex, xdvi and dvips should all work (the next time you log in). note that we have dvips, not dvi2ps. I don't know why, that's just how the distribution came. also note that tex only runs on the sun4s.
if you have your own special inputs, you need to know that the defaults are:
TEXINPUTS .:/tex/texmf/tex// TEXFONTS .:/tex/texmf/fonts//tfm TEXFORMATS .:/tex/texmf/web2c XDVIFONTS .:/tex/texmf/fonts
you won't need to set any of these unless you have files that aren't in the distribution.
if you have any style files, etc, that are fairly generic, please let me install them in the common directory, rather than keeping your own personal copy; that way we won't end up with 3 or 4 copies of, say, the ams stuff. let me know if we need more fonts, or whatever.
also, you may notice when you run xdvi or dvips that they have to make several fonts; that only happens once, so once we get all the fonts built, you won't see it again. I didn't bother to make all the fonts, figuring that it would save space to just make the ones we use.