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- Short: dvips for the Amiga, carefree version
-
- This is my pseudo-port of dvips for the Amiga. Basically, I just
- compiled the code with GCC 2.1, so it's not really a port. I left out
- the source code, since it's publically available elsewhere and I made
- no changes (at least as far as I remember...). I *did* include the
- Makefile I used to compile.
-
- Actually, this is a bit misleading. I'm not really familiar with GCC,
- and I didn't know quite how to handle all the modules. I ran 'make'
- once with -c in the CFLAGS line to keep the object modules unlinked;
- then, when all modules were compiled, I removed this flag to link it
- up.
-
- Also, the makefile called for some bizarre things involving ed, which
- the Amiga doesn't have; I created the files concerned by hand,
- emulating the ed commands in the makefile.
-
- All the output files (and input files required by dvips) are included
- in this archive, all moved to the proper directory. I compiled such
- that dvips looks in TeX: for its format files and fonts, so you need
- to make this assign if you use my binaries. A sample installation
- follows:
-
- > cd work:
- > lha x dh2:dvipsamiga.lha
- [lha reports deleted]
- > assign TeX: tex
- > cat >>s:ASSIGNS
- assign TeX: work:TeX DEFER
- [ctrl-\]
- > echo "Now go on about your business."
- Now go on about your business.
-
- Documentation, as in the distribution, is in dvips.tex.
-
- This archive contains no fonts; you'll have to fetch them elsewhere.
- I know for a fact that some stuff is available from
- midway.uchicago.edu:pub/tex/dvips/*, since I just cd-ed(?) there and
- looked at it.
-
- I don't use TeX (I just needed to PostScript-ify some .dvi files I
- have), so I don't know whether this setup clashes with a standard TeX
- setup. If so, my apologies, and you're welcome to use the Makefile.
-
- Hope this is useful to someone.
-
- --dgc
- dgc3@midway.uchicago.edu
-
- P.S. --Note that since this is compiled under GCC2.1, you need v37+
- of the ixemul.library loaded into your system. Do this however you
- wish, by putting it into libs: or by using a "loadlib"-type program.
-