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From: rsexton@uceng.UC.EDU (robert sexton)
Newsgroups: comp.text
Subject: Porting TeX
Keywords: TeX, web2c, frustration
Message-ID: <235@uceng.UC.EDU>
Date: 14 Sep 88 20:31:23 GMT
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Organization: Univ. of Cincinnati, College of Engg.
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Greetings, fellow TeXer's.  I'm currently trying to get TeX up and going
on a HP-UX series 900 model 840.  I haven't tried to get undump going
yet, but I've been attacking things from other directions.  Mostly building
TeX fron the ground up from the UNIX distribution tape.  It appears that 
installation would be quite easy if I was running BSD, SunOS, or 3B2 sysV.
I'm not however, and I'm really hanging on where to start.  The tape is 
pretty vague with regards to bringing it up on an unsupported UNIX machine.
I've been trying to get  tangle compiled, but it has been very resistant
to this process.  the only thing I can get to work is web2c. I would
think this would be all I need, but it seems nobody documented the software,
so I can't seem to get it to run tangle, tex, etc.  If anybody out there 
could detail the use of web2c, or would be kind enough to detail the steps
I'll need to go through, I'd be much appreciative.


Robert Sexton, University of Cincinnati
rsexton@uceng.uc.edu tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!uccba!uceng!rsexton
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