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Date: Sun, 20 Nov 1994 12:42:10 -0800
From: mackay@cs.washington.edu (Pierre MacKay)
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To: dave@dogwood.com
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In-Reply-To: Dave Cornejo's message of Sun, 20 Nov 1994 01:38:00 -0800 (PST) <199411200938.BAA11898@white.dogwood.com>
Subject: Re: portability of pk files
The only things that might make a PK file non-portable are
blocking and byte order. Even byte order is specified
(All true TeX binaries are Big-Endian except, in some deplorable
cases, for *.fmt files) but I would not want to stand as a guarantee
that nasty little corners of the DOS world have all lived up
to that requirement. The othe problem that might occur has
to do with file blocking. TeX binaries are defined as unblocked
undifferentiated byte streams, with file length padded to a count
divisible by 4. If your file system insists on blocking, and cannot
handle short final blocks, you may be in trouble. Otherwise,
PKs should be good in all environments except the Macintosh, where
all bets are off.
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