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From: cczdao@clan.nott.ac.uk (David Osborne)
Newsgroups: comp.text.tex
Subject: Re: OzTeX hash size increase
Summary: a new release is on the way!
Keywords: OzTeX, hash_size, new release
Message-ID: <52521@robin.cs.nott.ac.uk>
Date: 8 Aug 90 12:10:58 GMT
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Reply-To: cczdao@clan.nott.ac.uk (David Osborne)
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In article <1990Aug5.183246.9576@zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu>
edgar@function.mps.ohio-state.edu (Gerald Edgar) writes:
>
>This is not an easy task.  It does not require a Modula-2 expert.  It amounts
>to replacing thousands of 4-digit numbers in the source code by other
>4-digit numbers.  And it would only be a stop-gap measure, since
>OzTeX should be converted to TeX 3.0 now anyway...
>
>NEVERTHELESS, I offer to coordinate the task of increasing the hash
>size in the OzTeX source code.  If I get 20 volunteers, I will go ahead
>with it.


BEFORE YOU START...

i had an airmail letter this morning from Andrew Trevorrow, who's now
in India, but hard at work on his Mac IIcx on the latest version of OzTeX.

he says he has got a TeX V3 implementation under test now, for
inclusion in the next release, and that nearly all the important
parameters (mem_max, hash_size, trie_size, font_mem_size, etc) will be
settable in a config file.  this should solve the hash_size problem.

when?
well, Andrew mentions ``hopefully, Sept. some time'' for OzTeX 1.3 and
that he's got ``some other goodies planned for this new version''.
this isn't a firm date, you understand, but that's the intention.

--dave osborne
  university of nottingham & aston TeX archive group

David Osborne