DeuTex
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DeuTex can do many things with _Doom_, _Freedoom_, _Heretic_, _Hexen_,
and _Strife_ https://doomwiki.org/wiki/WAD[“WAD”] files, such as
extracting and inserting graphics, sounds, levels, and other
resources.  It can be used for creating and modifying IWAD and PWAD
files both.

Building and installing
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DeuTex uses an Autoconf+Automake build system, so its compilation and
installation process is identical to most other Unix packages:

    ./configure
    make
    make install

When building directly from the version control repository, you will
need autoconf and automake installed and run the `./bootstrap` command
first to generate the `./configure` file.

To build and install the manpage, AsciiDoc must be installed, in
particular the DocBook-based `a2x` command for transforming it into
manpage format.  DeuTex will still build without it, however.

To build and install on ReactOS or Microsoft Windows will require an
environment compatible with Unix shells and programs, such as Cygwin
or MSYS2.

Old versions of DeuTex ran on DOS and OS/2, but support has been
removed with no current plans to restore them.  As DeuTex gains new
features, old versions may not be usable with current build scripts.

History
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DeuTex began life as a fork of Doom Editing Utilities (known as DEU
for short) by Olivier Montanuy in 1994, expunging the graphical user
interface in favor of command line and scriptable usage scenarios.
Originally written for DOS, its primary home is now Unix systems, and
is a fundamental piece to building
_https://freedoom.github.io/[Freedoom’s]_ playable WAD files.

The name comes from a play on LaTeX and in turn TeX, a popular
typesetting system in academia but no technical connection to DeuTex.
It is pronounced as two syllables, the first like “due” or “dew,” and
the second like “tech” (not “tex”!), owing from its namesake.

Copyright
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Copyright © 1994-1996 Olivier Montanuy, © 1999-2005 André Majorel, ©
2006-2017 contributors to the DeuTex project.

This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or (at
your option) any later version.

This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but
WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR ANY PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the GNU
General Public License for more details, provided under the name
+COPYING+.
