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From: debra@alice.UUCP (Paul De Bra)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.xenix
Subject: Problems with Xenix Tex
Message-ID: <8576@alice.UUCP>
Date: 21 Dec 88 14:53:15 GMT
Reply-To: debra@alice.UUCP ()
Organization: AT&T, Bell Labs
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References:

Hi Tex-hackers,

There seem to be a few people having problems getting  Tex installed on their
286 boxes. Here is some general advice:

1) the format of the posting: files have first been compressed, then
   uuencoded, then put into a shell archive. So, to get them back one should
   - remove header and signature
   - run the files through the shell
   - uudecode the files
   - uncompress the files

   uuencode/uudecode are available on comp.sources.unix archives.
   compress was one of the postings. it was packed and not compressed for
   obvious reasons.

2) the undump program is somewhat dependent on the particular version of
   Xenix you run. I noticed that the format of executables changed from
   2.1.3 to 2.2.1, and I already heard from someone that the undump doesn't
   work properly on 2.2.3. Maybe someone at SCO could shed some light on
   this? I got one report (thanks Hank) that the undump would still work
   on a "hello world" program, but not on the Tex-biggie.

   I would appreciate if someone who had 2.2.1 and upgraded to 2.2.3 could
   tell me what diffs there might be in the appropriate include files.

Paul.
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