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From: tim%maths.tcd.ie@pucc.princeton.edu (Timothy Murphy)
Newsgroups: comp.os.minix
Subject: Re: Do TeX and Metafont exist under MINIX?
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Date: 6 Nov 90 03:32:36 GMT
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> I have run TeX under MINIX, but only the TEX --> DVI process, not
> a preview or a printer driver.
>
> Two ways possible:
> C-TeX, a version of TeX written in C. I have modified it to run on
> machines with 16-bit integers
>
> web2c:
> with this package, you can convert the web files to C programs.

Do you mean you compiled ctex in standard MINIX?
What was the size of the compiled program?
How did you deal with arrays more than 64k in length (mem, fontinfo)?

Timothy Murphy

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