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From: simpson@trwrb.UUCP (Scott Simpson)
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Subject: Porting METAFONT to the Pyramid
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Date: Fri, 24-Jul-87 14:53:44 EDT
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Has anyone out there ported METAFONT to a Pyramid under version 4.0
OSx?  METAFONT used to compile fine under OSx 3.1 but it seems that the
new Pyramid Pascal compiler will not allow you to pass an element of a
packed array by reference to a procedure (I reported it to Pyramid).
This causes a compilation error when the calledit() routine is called
with an element from str_pool.  I commented the call to this out and
compiled inimf but it goes in an infinite loop when it trys to read the
plain.mf file in.  You can't even interrupt inimf with ^C at this
point!  I am guessing that something in the parameter passing
convention has changed and some of the C files linked in need to be
changed.  If anyone has already solved this problem, I would appreciate
the change file and any other appropriate files needed.  Oh, our
version of /usr/lib/pcomp is 4.1.0 and our distribution tape contains
version 2.0 of TeX, 2.09 of LaTeX and 1.0 of METAFONT so it is
relatively current.
		Scott Simpson
		TRW Electronics and Defense Sector
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