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From: cczdao@mips.nott.ac.uk (David Osborne)
Newsgroups: comp.text.tex
Subject: Re: help with trip test
Message-ID: <1991Feb25.110755.25289@cs.nott.ac.uk>
Date: 25 Feb 91 11:07:55 GMT
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In article <TML.91Feb21100003@nyyti.tik.vtt.fi>, tml@tik.vtt.fi (Tor
Lillqvist) writes:
> In article <2532@kluge.fiu.edu> acmfiu@serss0.fiu.edu (ACMFIU) writes:
>    I am trying to "roll" my own TeX with p2c and other UNIX utilities.
> 
> Don't bother.  I have a TeX implementation based on (another)
> Pascal-to-C translator, ptc.  Fetch it with ftp from tik.vtt.fi,
> directories pub/ptc and pub/tex.

If this is on a Unix system, what's wrong with using the web2c package?
Why make life more difficult than it is already? :-)

--dave