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From: <[e-mail]> (Shahram Javey)
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Subject: [[e-mail]: METAFONT error]


I've had the identical problem on AIX. I've given-up experimentating.
I up-graded my compiler, compiled with -g, ... nothing helped. MakeTexPK
script still resulted in a core dump.

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Date: Mon, 19 Sep 94 19:44:33 -0700
From: [e-mail] (Jim Cadwell)
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Subject: METAFONT error
Cc: [e-mail]

I am getting a METAFONT error:

cmmf "\mode:=CanonCX; mag:=magstep\(0.0\); scrollmode; input cmsy10"
This is METAFONT, Version 2.71 (C version 6.1)

(/usr/local/lib/texmf/fonts/public/cm/src/cmsy10.mf
(/usr/local/lib/texmf/fonts/public/cm/src/mathsy.mf
(/usr/local/lib/texmf/fonts/public/cm/src/calu.mf [65] [66] [67] [68] [69]
[70] [71] [72] [73] [74] [75] [76] [77] [78] [79] [80] [81] [82] [83] [84]
[85] [86] [87] [88] [89] [90])
(/usr/local/lib/texmf/fonts/public/cm/src/symbol.mf
(/usr/local/lib/texmf/fonts/public/cm/src/sym.mf [0] [6] [8] [10] [91] [92]
[94] [95] [35] [34] [32] [33] [36] [26] [27] [50] [56] [57] [58] [20] [21]
[17] [110] [106] [1] [5] [102] [103] [49] [115]) [2] [3] [4] [7] [9] [11]
[12] [13] [14] [15] [16] [18] [19] [22] [23] [24] [25] [28] [29] [30] [31]
[37] [38] [39] [40] [41] [42] [43] [44] [45] [46] [47] [48] [51] [52] [53]
[54] [55] [59] [60] [61] [62] [63]Trace/BPT trap (core dumped)

Note that the above DOES work at magstep(0.5), but also fails at (1.0).
I found this problem because I noticed that the CTAN
tex-archive/fonts/cm/pk/pk300.zip set does not contain a very round \bullet
character. (this on a QMS-ps810 postscript print or on ghostview.)
Using magstep(0.5) to obtain 11pt fonts gives a good \bullet.

System be: the standard CTAN web2c stuff on IRIX 4.0.5.

Thank you, and thanks for providing a great TeX system!!
Jim

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