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Subject: TeX font file problem
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Date: Fri, 1-May-87 21:42:38 EDT
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Posted: Fri May  1 21:42:38 1987
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> I've been trying to get TeX up on our Apollo network,
> and I'm using the Apollo mods from srt.  Everything is
> fine, except that the program can't read the font files
> in the form I got them off the Stanford distribution tape.
> Apollo Pascal returns an error when trying to open them,
> because they are of type 'uasc' when they should be type
> 'rec'.  This is the way 'tar' created them.  I've tried
> changing the type of the file with 'obty', I've tried
> a program that read the files as characters, and then
> wrote them as 'file of integer', nothing seems to work.

Aaah.  I'd forgotten about this (and I've forgotten how I fixed it).
I believe the trick I used was to create a 0 length file of the
appropriate type (rec) by writing a little Pascal program (or maybe
by using obty).   Then I'd do the following (using trip.tfm as an
example):

        % mv trip.tfm trip.tfm.old              ; rename UASC

        % cp foo trip.tfm                       ; copy 0 length rec file
                                                ; to the correct name

        % cat trip.tfm.old >> trip.tfm          ; dump UASC -> REC

Strangely enough, this works.  You'll note that the file changes sizes
when it gets turned into a REC, which seems quite reasonable.  I thought
I wrote a shell script to do this, but I can't find it so you'll have
to recreate it.

Hope this helps!

                                        -- Scott Turner