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From: ellis@chips.sri.com (Michael Ellis)
Newsgroups: comp.text,comp.lang.pascal
Subject: Metafont vs SunOS
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Date: 4 Aug 89 02:28:35 GMT
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Reply-To: ellis@chips.sri.com.UUCP (Michael Ellis)
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    Is it hopeless to try to compile a usable version of METAFONT
    running under SunOS 4.0.3? We have Sun4's and Sun3's, and the SunOS
    PASCAL compiler on our Sun3'S

    After struggling a bit with the METAFONT 84 sources, it seems as though
    I may have to write a fair number of functions to simulate I/O
    primitives not provided in the SunOS I/O runtime library that METAFONT
    expects (break, breakin, erstat, close) in addition to writing
    sed-scripts replacing certain PASCAL keywords (others:) with SunOS
    PASCAL keywords (otherwise).

    Incompatibilities at such a gross level leave me wondering whether
    I am embarking on a doomed effort. Has anyone else ever been here
    before? Can METAFONT be made to run under SunOS 4.0.3? How?

-michael