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From: mdeck@acsu.buffalo.edu (Mary Deck)
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Subject: Re: system identification
Keywords: system unix vms
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Date: 12 Oct 90 15:46:05 GMT
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In article <1990Oct12.002015.14152@csrd.uiuc.edu> eijkhout@s41.csrd.uiuc.edu (Victor Eijkhout) writes:
>...
>Indirect answer: sure. You can for instance make the plain.fmt
>or lplain.fmt (whatever you use, plain TeX or LaTeX) again,
>...
>This may mean that you'll have to persuade systems people
>to redump the formats, but I think this is the simplest solution.

I'm just a lowly student who upkeeps the TeX distribution on one
system.  I don't have enough pull to get the university-wide formats
changed, and I don't have enough space to keep my own copies of
formats.  But thanks to all who suggested this. :)

Maybe I'll search for a particular Unix file, and if TeX can't find
that file, I'll have it look for the corresponding VAX file.  There
must be some way to do this without changing the format.....

						.....Mary

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Mary M. Deck,  Student Assistant,  User Services
University Computing Services, State University of New York at Buffalo
mdeck@cs.buffalo.edu [Unix]
acsgmmd@ubvms.cc.buffalo.edu [VAX/VMS]