Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!usenet.ins.cwru.edu!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!wuarchive!cec2!scs2635 From: scs2635@cec1.wustl.edu (Sean Cronin Starkey) Newsgroups: comp.binaries.ibm.pc.d Subject: Re: DOSTEX and total TeX neophyte... Summary: Yes, we really don't know what we are doing. Keywords: ignorance Message-ID: <1990Jan17.172437.1125@cec1.wustl.edu> Date: 17 Jan 90 17:24:37 GMT References: <7261@lindy.Stanford.EDU> Sender: news@cec2 (USENET News System) Reply-To: scs2635@cec2.UUCP (Sean Cronin Starkey) Distribution: usa Organization: Washington University, St. Louis, MO Lines: 42 In article <7261@lindy.Stanford.EDU> LC.YRS@forsythe.stanford.edu (Richard Stanton) writes: >In article <1173@polari.UUCP>, >tima@polari.UUCP (tim anderson) writes: >>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... >> >I had a similar problem, which I half solved by noting which >directories it was looking for, then creating directories with this >name, and copying the \240 contents into it. > >I noticed that one of the files defines what actual fonts on your >system correspond to particular fonts / point sizes in your >document. I tried editing this for a while, but then gave up when I >found that on the paper I was writing at the time, TEX ran out of >memory anyway, and could not even produce a .DVI file. > >If the same TEXpert could tell me how he / she got DOSTEX to run >(or, and maybe better, set up SBTEX with the LATEX macros and fonts >etc so that LATEX files were usable and printable on a DESKJET >printer (or LASERJET)), I'd be very, very grateful. > I got the right dviprogram from Utah, and that doesn't work. I could get a dvi file, but could not convert so my DeskJet+ could print it. I got an error saying out of memory (I have 640K with no mem-res programs) and with another one, an error saying fonts missing (I have 5 Meg of fonts in the right directory). Any ideas? -- Sean Starkey }:> scs2635@cec2.wustl.edu School Address: Home Address: Washington University 6926 Millbrook Blvd. 3-204 1761 Happ Road