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From: acmfiu@serss0.fiu.edu (ACMFIU)
Newsgroups: comp.text.tex
Subject: removing the tex.pool file from TeX
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Date: 2 Mar 91 04:35:04 GMT
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can anyone see any possible problems with fixing TeX so that it does not
refer to the tex.pool file?

in order to do this, i'd just have to make TeX never call get_strings_started
and everywhere there is a quoted string in TEX.WEB i'd just have to replace
that with writeln()'s and then modify the screen output routines. i do not
see this as a difficulty and it would make it much easier to modify TeX,
rather than making a modification to the changefile and then rebuilding
TeX.

albert