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- From: peter@julian.uwo.ca (Peter Marshall)
- Subject: MetaFont "unbounded black" on Epix CDC/Mips box
- Organization: University of Western Ontario, London
- Date: Fri, 1 Jan 1993 21:23:00 GMT
- Message-ID: <1993Jan1.212300.22247@julian.uwo.ca>
- Keywords: metafont EP/IX CDC Mips
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- We are having trouble getting MetaFont to do anything useful on our
- CDC 4680. I'm using the TeX3.14 distribution and give the following
- command
-
- cmmf '\mode=localfont; mag=magstep(0);' input cmr10
-
- On a Sun4 machine it works just fine, but on the CDC/MIPS box
- (compiled from the same source, sharing the same INPUTS area) I get
- the following (unbounded black) error
-
- This is METAFONT, C Version 2.7 (base=cmbase 92.12.24) 1 JAN 1993 16:09
- **\mode=localfont; mag=magstep(0); input cmr10
- (/uwo/ccs/lib/mf/inputs/cmr10.mf (/uwo/ccs/lib/mf/inputs/roman.mf
- (/uwo/ccs/lib/mf/inputs/romanu.mf [65] [66] [67
- (There's unbounded black in character shipped out!)
- (There's unbounded black in character shipped out!)] [68]
- ! METAFONT capacity exceeded, sorry [main memory size=262141].
- <recently read> ;
-
- arm->...UFFIX2)r--z(SUFFIX4)0--z(SUFFIX3)r--cycle;
- else:filldraw.z(SUFFIX2)l-...
- l.128 arm(3,4,e,beak_darkness,beak_jut)
- ; % upper arm and beak
- If you really absolutely need more capacity,
- you can ask a wizard to enlarge me.
-
- I have no idea where to start looking for this problem, but I'm pretty
- sure that this isn't really a capacity problem. I'd be grateful for
- any advice. Does anyone else have MF working on a MIPS (RISC/OS) or
- CDC (EP/IX) machine?
-
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- Peter Marshall, Manager (Academic Networking)
- CCS, NSC, U. of Western Ontario, London, Canada N6A 5B7 (519)661-2111x6032
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