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From: hsong@nvuxl.UUCP (g hugh song)
Newsgroups: comp.text.tex
Subject: Is virmf preloaded (undump?) by default?
Keywords: cmmf, mf, virmf, xtex, SeeTeX
Message-ID: <762@nvuxl.UUCP>
Date: 24 Dec 90 03:24:58 GMT
Organization: Bellcore, Livingston, NJ
Lines: 43

Strange.  I created my "localsite.mf" instead of "U_Wash.mf".  Then
I checked ".../mf/inputs/cmmf.mf" and ".../mf/inputs/mf.mf.mf" for the line
saying "input localsite".  Then
I created ".../mf/bases/cmmf.base" and ".../mf/bases/mf.base".   Then
I hardlinked ".../bin/cmmf" to ".../bin/virmf"  

Now I expect to make fonts in 100dpi for my DECStation dpi spec.
Alas! Executing 

$ cmmf '\mode:=DecHundredDpi;\mag:=magstep\(0\); input cmr10'

did not find the newly created mode "DecHundredDpi".  So I did the following.

$ cmmf '\mode:=help;\mag:=magstep\(0\); input cmr10'

This did not recognize the new mode at all.   So what's wrong?  I even
repeated the above precedure without introducing
"DecHundredDpi" but with different dpi values (100dpi) for existing 
"mode_def sun" (this has originally 82dpi).

$ cmmf '\mode:=sun;\mag:=magstep\(0\); input cmr10'

gave cmr10.82gf instead of cmr10.100gf which is expected.  
Now I removed ".../mf/bases/cmmf.base", and executed 'cmmf" command.
Alas, it did not complain anything, started to create fonts for 
"mode_def proof"which is the default when virmf does not find the proper mode.

So what am I missing?

TeX gurus (Dirk, Ken, Tom, DHosek)! Please help me to figure out this puzzle.

My system env is Dec Station 5000/200 with cc 1.31, TeX3.0.
What's wrong?  Please check on your site.   All this happend while I 
was installing, guess what, SeeTeX by Dirk Grunwald.  His machine is 
Not reachable from my site.  So I could not ftp the preinstalled fonts.
Does anybody know the internet addres of "foobar.colorado.edu"?

Thanks a lot.

	-hsong-
	nvuxl!hsong@bellcore.bellcore.com

PS: On Csh command line, you need to type "nvuxl\!hsong@..."