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From: pjbk@cs.hw.ac.uk (Peter King)
Newsgroups: comp.text.tex
Subject: TeX on a DECStation 5000?
Message-ID: <5255@brahma.cs.hw.ac.uk>
Date: 14 Jan 91 14:56:21 GMT
Reply-To: pjbk@cs.hw.ac.uk (Peter King)
Organization: Computer Science, Heriot-Watt U., Scotland
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We have just acquired a DEC Station 5000/200 RISC machine and I am
trying to port TeX to it.  We are running Ultrix V4.0 (RISC) and have
the source for version 2.93 of TeX.  web2C etc all run without error,
although the C compiler generates an error message about unreached code
(is that normal?) [has anyone linted the web2c version of TeX??].
The resulting code fails the trip test fairly convincingly.  The trip test
log file indicates 16 pages of output instead of 13 and there are
numerous differences in the dvitype output.

Has anyone any experience with this combination of hardware and
software?? All hints greatfully received.
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