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From: schmidt@cadlab.uucp (Michael Schmidt)
Newsgroups: comp.text
Subject: Problems with undumping TeX after web2 on Pyramid
Summary: undumped tex ignores environment
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Date: 21 Mar 89 20:54:45 GMT
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We now have the C sources of virtex, as produced by web2c. We can get a
working virtex out of it, we can let it dump a core and we can
produce a somewhat working TeX from it with undump. 

But, this TeX ignores all environment variables. A short
examination shows, that the procedure, which reads the
environment is never executed by the undumped program. This may
be a fault (feature) of undump, but I believe that surely
somebody has fixed it, since the environment variables are
essentials. Furthermore, it seems to work with the Pascal derived TeX.

Any ideas, comments?

BTW, has anybody a working undump for SUNOS4.0 ?
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