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From: chet@Advansoft.COM (Chet Wood)
Newsgroups: comp.text.tex
Subject: Re: Using the window support for MF
Message-ID: <CHET.91Feb28151516@chiron.Advansoft.COM>
Date: 28 Feb 91 23:15:16 GMT
References: <1991Feb22.174714.1@happy.colorado.edu>
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Organization: Advansoft Research Corp, Santa Clara, CA
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In-Reply-To: jkkalita@happy.colorado.edu's message of 22 Feb 91 23:47:14 GMT

>>>>> On 22 Feb 91 23:47:14 GMT, jkkalita@happy.colorado.edu said:

jkkalita> We just got MF installed under TeX3.0. I can run MF alright,
jkkalita> but I don't know how to get the window support working. We
jkkalita> are running it on a DECstation with X11 window system. I
jkkalita> know we have the code for the window support, but I don't
jkkalita> what needs to be done get the window support working.

This is a bug. The workaround is to set TERM=xterm in the environment.

Otherwise, you can apply this patch to metafont:

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*** extra.c     Tue Jan 29 10:22:05 1991
--- extra.c.orig        Thu Apr 19 21:40:36 1990
***************
*** 1086,1098 ****
  #ifndef TRAP
    register char *ttytype;

!
! /* ARC change: check for DISPLAY being set before checking TERM */
!   if (getenv("DISPLAY"))
!         ttytype = "xterm";
!   else
!         if ((ttytype = getenv ("TERM")) == NULL || !(isatty (fileno (stdout)))
)
!                 return (0);
    for (mfwp = mfwsw; mfwp->mfwsw_type != NULL; mfwp++)
      if (!strncmp (mfwp->mfwsw_type, ttytype, strlen (mfwp->mfwsw_type))
        || !strcmp (ttytype, "emacs"))
--- 1086,1093 ----
  #ifndef TRAP
    register char *ttytype;

!   if ((ttytype = getenv ("TERM")) == NULL || !(isatty (fileno (stdout))))
!     return (0);
    for (mfwp = mfwsw; mfwp->mfwsw_type != NULL; mfwp++)
      if (!strncmp (mfwp->mfwsw_type, ttytype, strlen (mfwp->mfwsw_type))
        || !strcmp (ttytype, "emacs"))

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