Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!ogicse!milton!haccme
From: haccme@milton.u.washington.edu (Thomas Ridgeway)
Newsgroups: comp.text
Subject: Re: Problem installing TEX3.0 (undump)
Keywords: TeX, LaTeX, undump
Message-ID: <8150@milton.u.washington.edu>
Date: 26 Sep 90 16:44:29 GMT
References: <286@rangkom.MY>
Organization: University of Washington, Seattle
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In article <286@rangkom.MY> napi@rangkom.MY (Mohd Hanafiah b. Abdullah) writes:
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>Dear netters,
>
>I am having a problem installing TEX3.0.
>
>We have a Convex C220 running Convex UNIX 8.1.  When I tried to 'undump'
>either TeX or LaTeX, I was given "a.out file doesn't have legal magic
>number".  The 'undump' source code was given with the TeX distribution.
>
        [details of problem omitted]
>
>Thanks in advance.
>
>Hanafiah

  This is not the answer which was requested, however ---
as stated in the UnixTeX distribution, the undumped preloaded
format versions of TeX were always very hacky machine dependent
gadgets which are no longer recommended.  Included below
is a copy of the file 0UNSUPPORTED from the UnixTex3.0 distribution's
undump directory:
 
    The programs in this directory are now basically unsupported.
    For almost all systems, undumped TeX is an inferior approach
    and the intrinsic machine dependency of these programs makes
    them too costly to maintain with any promise of reliability.

In short, don't do it at all.  Just prepare the format files and
let TeX load them at runtime.  [The distribution READMEs have further
comment on the matter]

cheerio,
Tom

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Thomas Ridgeway
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