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From: rokicki@polya.Stanford.EDU (Tomas G. Rokicki)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next
Subject: Re: More 1.0 bugs
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Date: 5 Oct 89 21:14:16 GMT
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Sender: Tomas G. Rokicki <rokicki@Polya.Stanford.EDU>
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rogerj@batcomputer.tn.cornell.edu (Roger Jagoda) writes:
> 3) During the Install_TeX script, the basic
> installation worksfine, but when users are
> instructed to type /usr/lib/tex/Make_Fonts
> they should be willing to WAIT. the basic.set
> build takes six hours, and that's on a machine
> with 16MB of RAM and 660MB of drive! The build
> for the full.set (all the fonts) just took too
> long. When I cntrl-c I get some error about there
> being a problem unpacking one of the fonts. It
> takes three cntrl-c's to kill this script!

It does take a while.  It warns you about that during the script.
And killing the script isn't easy because the various programs have
their own idea about how to handle a control-C.

The amount of time it takes is commeasurate with the speed of the
machine, though; I won't tell you how long it takes my Amiga to
generate the same set of fonts.  Luckily, both the Amiga and the
NeXT machine are fully multitasking so the fonts can run in the
background without disturbing operations excessively.  And the
script is written so it can be restarted without having to remake
the fonts that already exist.

> 4) Trying to use lpr to print TeX dvi files
> crashed the lpd deamon. If I use lpr -d as
> described in man pages for lpr, I kill the
> daemon. I was told this would be fixed in
> 1.0 as I posted it before under 0.9! The
> work-around has been/still is to use dvips
> and print using Preview. BooHiss. Also, TeXView
> allows no PRINT options...what a waste!

The lpr daemon has no idea what dvi files are.  Use dvips.  (As
shipped, `dvips foo' will send the output to your current `lpr'
default printer.  This is easily changed in /usr/lib/tex/config.ps.)
I believe it is possible to make lpr spool dvi files correctly,
in the same manner you would do this on any other Unix system.

Full source is provided for TeXview; adding a Print option is as
simple as putting up a panel and then executing `dvips'.  Perhaps
this will appear in a future version.

Of general interest:  a new version of dvips and TeXview is available
on Radical Eye Radio, at (415) 32-AMIGA.  Discussion on desired
features, possible bugs, and future directions is welcomed.  So is
source code for new features (preferably in diff -c format) since
full source for TeXview and dvips is provided.

> Roger Jagoda

Thank you for your comments.

-tom