Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!husc6!bu-cs!buengc!art
From: art@buengc.BU.EDU (A. R. Thompson)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.encore
Subject: Re: TeX
Message-ID: <2561@buengc.BU.EDU>
Date: 17 Apr 89 04:56:48 GMT
References: <1101@bnlux0.bnl.gov>
Reply-To: art@buengc.bu.edu (A. R. Thompson)
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In article <1101@bnlux0.bnl.gov> como@bnl-max (Andrew T. Como) writes:
>
>	Is there anyone out there that has a version of TeX that
>is running the the Encore Umax 4.2 (rev 3.2).
>
>	I have a version written is Pascal but unfortunately
>the Encore compiler is terribly deficient.
>
>	Appreciate any help from you multimax administrators.

It's not the Encore Pascal that's deficient, it's the Berkeley Pascal that
is terribly deficient.  Namely it passes file variables as value
parameters which is a no no.  The C versions of TeX work just fine.  You
should get them and everything should be peachy.  If you have a problem
please contact us and we will give you a hand.

You should be very careful before you run around calling somebody's
procuct deficient  when you don't know what you're talking about.  You owe
Encore and Oregon Software and apology.