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- From: mhick@bsu-cs.bsu.edu (Mutahar Hickey)
- Newsgroups: comp.text.tex
- Subject: Metafont--installation Query
- Message-ID: <3554@bsu-cs.bsu.edu>
- Date: 26 Jan 93 14:17:08 GMT
- Article-I.D.: bsu-cs.3554
- Organization: CS Dept, Ball St U, Muncie, Indiana
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- Dear Netters:
-
- I have been having a problem with installing the most recent WEB
- WEB2C package I got from cs.umb.edu. The main problem is with MetaFont:
- It cannot find its files. I have given the explicit path name in
- MFFONTS and the explicit path name to the macros in MFINPUTS. When I use
- dvips and use the debug option it shows me that it has the correct paths
- in it, yet MetaFont says: cant find file "filename" and then quits.
-
- There seem to be no debug options with MetaFont.
-
- The question I have is: does Metafont want to find its .mf files to
- construct from and then if there is not anything there go to the TEX fonts
- tfm files?
-
- Also in this distribution is a path for fig files What are fig
- files?
-
- I also cannot get the X11 file to work either on the Sun or on the
- DEC workstations.
-
- I would appreciate any wizard who has successfully installed MetaFont
- with the newer distributions sending me some helpful hints.
-
- I am using a DEC 5500 with a DEC 5000 server linked to a set of
- DEC3100 workstations. Everything is cross linked and networked. We are
- using an ethernet network.
-
- I would appreciate any help. You can reply to my email address if
- you think it is not pertinent for the news readers.
-
- Thank you very much,
-
- Mutahar
-
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