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From: monardo@cshl.org (Pat Monardo)
Subject: Re: Need a bigger TeX
Message-ID: <1991Apr29.044618.27035@cshl.org>
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References: <GARYM.91Apr16113308@cognos.uucp@uunet.uu.net> <1991Apr28.223716.1047@world.std.com>
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Date: Mon, 29 Apr 91 04:46:18 GMT

In article <1991Apr28.223716.1047@world.std.com> zwilling@world.std.com (Daniel Zwillinger) writes:
>A friend of mine needs to get a large version of TeX
>(since he uses PiCTeX, which can sometimes use up a lot of memory)
>He now uses BigTeX (created by the change/patch file that came
>with the TeX distribution).
>Does anyone have a change/patch file that can be used to get a 
>MonsterTeX? (i.e., the next size up, packing values in 
>whole words instead of half words.)
>

Common TeX has successfully typeset /usr/dict/words as a 38 page
paragraph. It created over 60000  break nodes in the process.
It is currently limited to available swap space.