Alternatively, texed might be a specific program name. A search of historical software (e.g., comp.text.tex archives, old CTAN listings) reveals no exact match, but there was a tool called texed for the classic Mac OS (circa 1994) unrelated to NFS. No version 1.7 exists. More likely, nfs-texed was a written by a system administrator at a university or research lab – exactly the kind of tool that would never make it into mainstream repositories but would be documented in local README files, now lost.
Version 1.7 introduced a customizable build chain: latex → dvips → ps2pdf or directly pdflatex . You can bind a single keystroke (e.g., F5 ) to compile the remote document and display logs—without ever manually copying files to a local temporary directory. nfs-texed 1.7
Automatic retry on NFS4ERR_STALE_CLIENTID and NFS4ERR_EXPIRED without crashing the editor session. Alternatively, texed might be a specific program name