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From: ram@umb.umb.edu (Robert Morris)
Newsgroups: comp.text
Subject: Re: MetaFont troubles
Message-ID: <794@umb.umb.edu>
Date: 22 Jun 89 11:58:35 GMT
References: <64247@yale-celray.yale.UUCP>
Reply-To: ram@umb.UUCP (Robert Morris)
Organization: Dept of Math and CS, UMass Boston.
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In article <64247@yale-celray.yale.UUCP> you write:
>I'm trying to generate .*pk's from the .mf's that someone sent me.  I've found
>the file that I'm supposed to run through `mf', and I've tried both `cmmf'
>and `virmf' (it shouldn't matter, as the file loads `cmbase' if it hasn't been
>loaded), but I get a 600K+ log file full of error messages.


You do not say where you got the metafonts, but I wonder if they are
for the old metafonts,e.g., the Chinese metafonts of Hobby and Gu
Goan.  You have to run that on a machine running Sail. There aren't
many, and sail.stanford.edu itself is being decommissioned soon.

Bob Morris
ram@typo.umb.edu