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Cc: mackay@cs.washington.edu (Pierre MacKay), tex-k@cs.umb.edu
Subject: Re: [carlson@math.purdue.edu: Re: [Q] Making pk fonts and modes.mf]
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Thu, 16 Feb 1995 16:17:58 EST."
Date: Fri, 17 Feb 1995 15:56:15 -0500
From: Peter Whaite <peta@Whippet.McRCIM.McGill.EDU>
Oops. Pierre informs me that
> Pierre Mackay says:
>
> > Ok, I repent. I basically agree with you and Raymond. Unfortunately I'm
> > not the sysadmin of the machines I've installed TeX on, and he has
> > expressed concern with letting joe_user write pk files. There is always
> > some idiot around (usually several) who will have TeX do something
> > ridiculous with a font and wind up creating huge pk files which fill up
> > the filesystem.
was incorrectly attributed to him. My apologies.