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From: schwab@julien.informatik.uni-dortmund.de (Andreas Schwab)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: modes.mf (was re: waits.mf?????)
Keywords: Metafont TeX plain waits
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Date: 21 Jun 91 09:31:33 GMT
References: <1991Jun20.142955.5367@chinet.chi.il.us>
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In article <1991Jun20.142955.5367@chinet.chi.il.us>, saj@chinet.chi.il.us (Stephen Jacobs) writes:
|> In my never-ending quest to get TeX running ROUTINELY on my ST (without, to the
|> best of my knowledge, ever having spoken to anyone else who knows or cares
|> about TeX AT ALL), I've run into another 'challenge'.  Near as I can figure
|> it, the version of plain.bas that was posted to the binaries group here a
|> while back had printer definitions loaded from a 'localization' file called
|> waits.mf (thank you for memfile, Gribnif people).  Rather than discarding this
|> version of plain and making a new one, I'd prefer to know what it contains.
|> Does anyone have waits.mf?  Would it be possible (reasonable) to post it to
|> comp.sources.atari.st, since it was part of the source for a binary that
|> was distributed in in comp.binaries.atari.st?  If someone has it and doesn't
|> care to post it, please email me a copy.
|>                                    Steve       saj@chinet.chi.il.us

You should use modes.mf, the successor of waits.mf.  It has the same
functionality and much more.  It is available from the major TeX
archives.

--
Andreas Schwab
schwab@ls5.informatik.uni-dortmund.de