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From: space@ncc1701.stgt.sub.org (Lars Soltau)
Newsgroups: comp.text.tex
Subject: Re: IBM RT/AIX port?
Summary: AIX 3.1 port poses no problem
Message-ID: <782@ncc1701.stgt.sub.org>
Date: 16 Sep 90 22:19:53 GMT
References: <1990Sep10.233739.10020@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu>
Reply-To: space@ncc1701.stgt.sub.org (Lars Soltau)
Organization: United Federation of Planets
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In article <1990Sep10.233739.10020@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu> resnick@cogsci.uiuc.edu (Pete Resnick) writes:
>Has anyone ported TeX 3.0 and all of its assorted and sundry pieces to
>AIX (IBM's wonderful version of almost SYSV)? I am running 2.2.1 on an
>IBM RT and can't get it to make. If someone has made changes already,
>I would be mighty 'preciative.

Lucky enough we received the new IBM /6000 workstation before I got my hands
on the TeX 3.0 sources, so I could port them onto the new AIX version instead
of that horrid bug collection called AIX 2.2.

The port was absolutely easy. I only had to remove two or three prototypes for
sprintf() and everything went fine. I haven't gotten around to running the
triptrap test yet, but I've already TeXed a few documents and there were no
problems. BTW, the baby really screams.

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