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- From: hankedr@mail.auburn.edu (Darrel Hankerson)
- Subject: Re: problem with OS/2 dvips
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- Date: Sat, 23 Jan 1993 16:26:28 GMT
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- In article <1993Jan21.125139.8994@news.duc.auburn.edu> hankedr@mail.auburn.edu (Darrel Hankerson) writes:
- >In article <1993Jan20.202547.19593@husc3.harvard.edu> gouvea@zariski.harvard.edu
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- Fernando Gouvea had written that the dvips (converts TeX dvi files) 5.495
- recently posted to ftp-os2.nmsu.edu calls 'MakeTeXPK.cmd', and this
- file will not be found on FAT drives. I had replied to an earlier post
- on dvips 5.495 (there is a potential problem with FILE.0 in the .cmd file).
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- Currently, I use Sinha's port of dvips 5.490, but Rokicki has warned of
- problems with versions prior to 5.495 (also, the .cmd file included with
- 5.495 is a REXX script which offers additional features which may be of
- interest).
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- Here's a copy of my email reply:
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- I had assumed that a OS/2 would automatically truncate on a FAT drive (MSDOS
- will truncate, right?). I tested 5.495 again, and it appears that you
- are correct (but why did the author package it with 'maketexp.cmd' if it
- needs to be 'maketexpk.cmd' on all systems?).
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- I used beav (avail on ftp-os2.nmsu.edu, thanks to Kai Uwe Rommel for
- the port) to edit dvipsos2.exe so that
- 'MakeTeXPK' is now 'MakeTeXP'. It works. Note that the REXX script
- expects the new fonts directories to exist (?).
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- Note also that I posted a reply some time ago to a problem with the REXX
- version (FILE.0 may need to be set). It does work for me if I rename to
- 'maketexpk.cmd'
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- --darrel hankerson hank@ducvax.auburn.edu
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