CTAN Announcements | 11 May 16:56
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CTAN has a new package: ctan.tools

The package below has been installed at tug.ctan.org and is working its
way through the system.

Thanks again,
Jim Hefferon
Saint Michael's College

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The following information was provided by our fellow contributor:

Name of contribution: ctan.tools
Author's name: kyanh
Location on CTAN: /support/ctantools
Summary description: some *nix scripts to search, download latex package from CTAN
License type: lppl

Announcement text: 
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ABOUT

	This small tool is used to seach some LaTeX packages that were listed in CTAN:
		 http://ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/.

	The tool requires wget, lynx, gawk, wc and sed program to run correctly.
	Some linux distribution doesnot contains lynx by default
	and you must install lynx manually before running ./ctan.

	So this tool requires a *nix-liked environment to work.

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