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From: tima@polari.UUCP (tim anderson)
Newsgroups: comp.binaries.ibm.pc.d
Subject: DOSTEX and total TeX neophyte...
Summary: Does it work for you??
Keywords: Neophyte, ignoramous, spam-brain
Message-ID: <1173@polari.UUCP>
Date: 17 Jan 90 02:34:11 GMT
Reply-To: tima@polari
Distribution: comp.binaries.ibm.pc.d
Organization: PolarServ, Seattle WA
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I spent a couple weeks getting all of the DOSTEX stuff off of SIMTEL.
Now, of course, it doesn't work... What girations do I have to go through
to get it to work? I ran the LATEX.BAT file, and I seem to have a 
working version of LATEX. I edited the LFONT.TEX file to eliminate 
references to the many non-existant fonts. I think THAT part is working...
Now, does the DVI2HERC and/or DVIEPS work at all? I assumed that 
DVIEPS would only access font files that are in the \tex\fonts\pk\240\
directory, but it seems to be getting them from everywhere BUT there...

Boy, shame on me for expecting this to work out of the box! Anyway, if
someone has a list of the ten billion things that have to be done to 
get DOSTEX to actually WORK correctly I will personally worship you as a 
diety. It seems to be more of a 'convert from .DVI' problem than a
'LaTeX doesn't work' problem...

Doomo arigato gozaimashita...

tima@polari (This is a UUCP address, I think it will work?!)
            The other address is !uw-beaver!sumax!polari!tima ?? I could
            be wrong...