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Date: Sun, 19 Feb 1995 23:36:17 -0500
From: Cameron Smith <orionint@dialup.oar.net>
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To: A.D.Nimmo@dcs.qmw.ac.uk, kb@cs.umb.edu, mackay@cs.washington.edu,
rokicki@CS.Stanford.EDU
Subject: Thanks for your assistance; I've got it working now (re-send)
Cc: tex-k@cs.umb.edu
[I forgot to include the CC: at the end on the first sending... sorry!]
Messrs. Rokicki, Berry, MacKay, & Nimmo:
Thanks to each of you for your assistance in tracking down my
problems getting the current Unix TeX suite (web2c-6.1) to
compile on my NeXTStep 2.1 system. As you recommended, I
installed a current GNU C compiler (gcc 2.6.3) and recompiled
with that, and my problems disappeared (almost*). I now have
a working TeX 3.1415 and friends. Although I didn't track down
the original problem to its source, I am confident that your
conjectures (about failures in the outdated gcc supplied with
my antique version of NeXTStep being the cause of the problem)
were correct.
Thanks again to each of you for taking the time to help me out.
Your kindness is very much appreciated.
I am CC:ing this note to the tex-k mailing list so that others
may have a chance to benefit from this experience.
--Cameron Smith
* The "(almost*)" above refers to the one remaining difficulty
I'm experiencing. TeX is not honoring the font aliases in
the "texfonts.map" file. I know that TeX is correctly finding
and reading the file, because if I put an intentional error
into the file (e.g. a line containing only the word "foobar"),
TeX makes the appropriate complaint about an entry in the
"texfonts.map" file specifying a font but no alias. However,
when I give TeX a command like "\font\foo=foo\relax", if the
file "foo.tfm" does not exist, neither the entry "foo bar" nor
"bar foo" in the "texfonts.map" file will make TeX consent
to read "bar.tfm" in its place. (And it's not that TeX can't
find "bar.tfm", because "\font\bar=bar\relax" *does* work.)
I don't really need this feature right now (although I can
certainly appreciate its usefulness), and the only reason I
even bring it up is that it gives me slight misgivings about
the new TeX suite I've just built (even though the trip and
trap tests were passed successfully).
I'd be grateful for any suggestions, but at least I'm (apparently)
up and running with the essential TeX functionality. Thanks again! --CS