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Subject: Re: TFM files: Imagen v. Talaris
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Date: Tue, 9-Apr-85 14:30:12 EST
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From: Marshall Rose <mrose%NRTC@USC-ECL.ARPA>


    A couple of notes:  1) we're actually running our talaris on a
    4.2BSD UNIX system (can you believe that), not VMS.  2) my
    examination of the files has been limited (at the moment to
    examining the sizes of corresponding files.

    This sadly, owing to the fact that I couldn't bring the imagen
    stuff on-line due to lack of disk space.  We're installing another
    eagle today, but I can't use it til the end the week.  I guess it's
    possible that files with different sizes can be semantically
    identical, so I may have started a war by mistake.

    Before awarding Talaris "the seal of bad TeXkeeping", let me get
    both sets of .tfm files on-line and compare some TFM checksums.  I
    suppose that's the acid test.

    Sorry if I started people putting on war paint prematurely.

/mtr


[[Editor's note:  Public domain software to drive the QMS from Unix is
also available although since it hasn't been installed at very many
sites, we can't say how effective it is.  The software is on the Unix
TeX distribution tape or may be obtained by ftping
<tex.xfer>qmstex.tar from Washington.  If you are ftping to a Unix
site, use "type l 8" or "tenex" mode since this is a tar image file
stored on a Tops-20.  If you install the software, drop me a note and
let me know how it goes---Furuta@Washington is the address.  The
software was Simpson of TRW.		--Rick]]