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From: iau@ukc.ac.uk (I.A.Utting)
Newsgroups: comp.text
Subject: Re: dvips/MusicTeX
Message-ID: <3598@harrier.ukc.ac.uk>
Date: 10 Jan 90 10:42:25 GMT
References: <1990Jan9.232351.6570@Neon.Stanford.EDU>
Reply-To: iau@ukc.ac.uk (I.A.Utting)
Organization: Computing Lab, University of Kent at Canterbury, UK.
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We had a similar sounding problem here. Note heads were not printed via dvips
running on Vaxen and MIPS machines, but were OK on Sun3s and Sun386i, and by
other back-ends. There turned out to be an endianism assumption in repack.c
(all versions including 4.21). The diffs below costs a little speed, but are
portable and seems to work. Your line-numbers may differ.

Ian Utting.

----
*** repack.c	Wed Dec 20 18:34:18 1989
--- ../dvips4.0/repack.c	Wed Dec 20 16:54:46 1989
***************
*** 400,417 ****
  }
  putlong(a, i)
  register char *a ;
! register long i ;
  {
!    *a++ = (i >> 24);
!    *a++ = (i >> 16);
!    *a++ = (i >> 8);
!    *a++ = i;
  }
  long getlong(a)
  register char *a ;
  {
!    register long t ;
  
!    t = a[0] << 24 | a[1] << 16 | a[2] << 8 | a[3];
     return(t) ;
  }
--- 400,424 ----
  }
  putlong(a, i)
  register char *a ;
! long i ;
  {
!    register char *b = (char *)&i ;
! 
!    a[0] = b[0] ;
!    a[1] = b[1] ;
!    a[2] = b[2] ;
!    a[3] = b[3] ;
  }
  long getlong(a)
  register char *a ;
  {
!    long t ;
!    register char *b ;
  
!    b = (char *)&t ;
!    b[0] = a[0] ;
!    b[1] = a[1] ;
!    b[2] = a[2] ;
!    b[3] = a[3] ;
     return(t) ;
  }