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From: glenn@suphys.physics.su.OZ.AU (Glenn Geers)
Newsgroups: comp.text.tex
Subject: Experience with Common TeX 3.0 on 386 UNIX
Message-ID: <1990Nov26.223140.16256@metro.ucc.su.OZ.AU>
Date: 26 Nov 90 22:31:40 GMT
Reply-To: glenn@suphys.physics.su.OZ.AU (Glenn Geers)
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Hi,
	well I fetched Pat's new offering and compiled it on our SUN 4 and all went
well - produced TeX and LaTeX - and both work fine. I then had a go on our 386
box (Sys V.3.2) and the compile went smoothly. Make tex worked fine, but make
latex failed (Frank Mittelbach's lplain.tex same as on the Sun). Ok, probably
a problem with 'cc' producing something odd. Stranger things have happened.
So I recompile with 'gcc' (COFF/stabs) only to have the same thing happen 
again. 

Well anyway initex lplain dies just before it looks at hyphen.tex. A poke around
with the debugger shows that it dies in new_node() (alloc.c) which is called
from new_sym() (sym.c) as (when it crashes) new_sym("stackrel", 9) which seems
ok. Has anyone got any further? or is it worth my while to have a longer look?

					Cheers,
						Glenn

BTW Keep up the good work Pat.


glenn@qed.physics.su.oz.au


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