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From: rmtodd@servalan.uucp (Richard Todd)
Newsgroups: comp.text.tex
Subject: Re: TeX under Unix/386
Message-ID: <1990Dec15.001643.2785@servalan.uucp>
Date: 15 Dec 90 00:16:43 GMT
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ilan343@violet.berkeley.edu (Geraldo Veiga) writes:

>Using the Unix3.0 (Web2C) distribution seems to be the safest way to
>go, but is the Unix distribution "SysV friendly"?  From the bits I've
>seen in the unix3.0 directory at Labrea.stanford, even some file names
>are over the dreaded 14-character SysV limit.

>Is it going to be as easy as typing "make" under UNIX/386?

>	Thanks in advance

Well, I built TeX on A/UX 1.1 (SysVR2, with the dreaded 14-char limit), and 
don't recall the filename limit causing any problems.  Basically, all I
had to do was edit the config file for web2c and type "make".  I'd be rather
surprised if UNIX/386 had problems with it.  
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