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From: jpe@egr.duke.edu (John P. Eisenmenger)
Newsgroups: comp.text.tex
Subject: Re: LaTeX on IBM R6000
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Date: 30 Oct 90 20:30:59 GMT
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From article <1363@ul-cs.ulowell.edu>, by pmaresch@hawk.ulowell.edu (Pierre Mareschal):
> 
> Hi,
> 
> Here is a message I get when building latex on the IBM R6000
> systems but I never encountered such a problem!

>         ../web/tangle tex.web ctex.ch
> This is TANGLE, C Version 4
> *1*17*25*38*54*72*99*110*115*133
> ! Value too big: 2550000. (l.3229)

This is a simple problem, but one which will stump many people, so
I am posting to the net.  The problem is that the "char" type is
*NOT* signed on the RS6000.  Simply change the line

		#define schar char

in your site.h file to be

		#define schar signed char

and the problem should clear up.  Oh yes, I am also using the bsdcc
compiler as outlined in the "porting BSD" notes.

-John Eisenmenger
 Dept. of Electrical Engineering
 Duke University