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From: tml@hemuli.tik.vtt.fi (Tor Lillqvist)
Newsgroups: comp.text.tex
Subject: Re: dvi files and printer drivers
Keywords: dvi
Message-ID: <4610@hemuli.tik.vtt.fi>
Date: 22 Mar 90 08:38:00 GMT
References: <7457@latcs1.oz.au> <5224@jarthur.Claremont.EDU> <7294@hydra.gatech.EDU> <5259@jarthur.Claremont.EDU>
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In article <5259@jarthur.Claremont.EDU> dhosek@jarthur.Claremont.EDU (---) writes:
>Another thing which can happen (I just remembered this now) is that on one
>system (I forget which) DVI files and other TeX binaries have their length
>encoded into them at the beginning (NAUGHTY NAUGHTY NAUGHTY), which can
>cause problems. This may be on the Data General, but I forget.

I used this method when I ported TeX to the HP1000 some six years ago.
It has a really braindead file system, and this was a trick I
considered necessary.  Of course, the HP1000 port is very obsolete by
now.  (I must admit that the Pascal/1000 compiler did compile TeX
without problems, you can't say the same of many Unix Pascal
compilers.)
-- 
Tor Lillqvist,
working, but not speaking, for the Technical Research Centre of Finland