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From: dav@eleazar.dartmouth.edu (William David Haas)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: MetaFont
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Date: 10 Sep 89 04:16:01 GMT
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Reply-To: dav@eleazar.dartmouth.edu (William David Haas)
Organization: Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH
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I am trying to get metafont working on some of my own .mf files.  I can
get mf on a UNIX system to work on my files but can't seem to make things
work on the st.  I have all the fonts setup but I may not be setting up
things properly.  Can anyone who has used MetaFont successfully give me
some advice?

Particulars:
	I have a 16 meg partition on my hard drive just for TeX.  At the
root level I have a \fonts directory which has ALL the fonts from terminator
installed.  I have gotten TeX and Dvist to work.  I have initex and virtex
from terminator but when I try to run either on my .mf file I get an exit
code of -39 from gulam and nothing (just an exit) from the desktop.  My
guess is my problem is either the wrong command line options or a bad path
setup.  I have tried

virtex "\mode=screen; input portr70"
virtex "input portr70"
virtex "\input portr70"


Any clues?