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From: exodus@uop.edu (G.Onufer)
Newsgroups: comp.text
Subject: CommonTeX
Message-ID: <1172@uop.edu>
Date: 3 Mar 88 10:55:32 GMT
Organization: UoP-- Sun Lab Administration
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Does anyone out there know what changes are necessary to CommonTeX
to get it to run on a machine with 16-bit int's??

Is the author still around?  I tried calling the number in the README
file but it is disconnected.  The operator tells me there is no listing
in any of the areas around Palo Alto for him.

PLEASE do not tell me to make sure BIG and BIGG are undefined!!  That is
the _first_ step.  There are assignments everywhere where a long constant
is placed into 'int'-sized variables.  One problem occurs while compiling
for initex.  sort_avail sends get_node 0x4000000, and get_node treats
that very specially.  But if one runs the executable compiled with no changes,
get_node actually gets a 0x4000 (on my compiler anyways) and that fails
the 0x4000 == 0x4000000 test!!

Any and all help would be greatly appreciated!

Greg Onufer
Univ of the Pacific Sun Lab Admin
exodus@uop.edu
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