schwab@julien.informatik.uni-dortmund.de (Andreas Schwab) (06/21/91)
In article <1991Jun20.142955.5367@chinet.chi.il.us>, saj@chinet.chi.il.us (Stephen Jacobs) writes: |> In my never-ending quest to get TeX running ROUTINELY on my ST (without, to the |> best of my knowledge, ever having spoken to anyone else who knows or cares |> about TeX AT ALL), I've run into another 'challenge'. Near as I can figure |> it, the version of plain.bas that was posted to the binaries group here a |> while back had printer definitions loaded from a 'localization' file called |> waits.mf (thank you for memfile, Gribnif people). Rather than discarding this |> version of plain and making a new one, I'd prefer to know what it contains. |> Does anyone have waits.mf? Would it be possible (reasonable) to post it to |> comp.sources.atari.st, since it was part of the source for a binary that |> was distributed in in comp.binaries.atari.st? If someone has it and doesn't |> care to post it, please email me a copy. |> Steve saj@chinet.chi.il.us You should use modes.mf, the successor of waits.mf. It has the same functionality and much more. It is available from the major TeX archives. -- Andreas Schwab schwab@ls5.informatik.uni-dortmund.de
piet@cs.ruu.nl (Piet van Oostrum) (06/22/91)
>>>>> schwab@julien.informatik.uni-dortmund.de (Andreas Schwab) (AS) writes:
AS> You should use modes.mf, the successor of waits.mf. It has the same
AS> functionality and much more. It is available from the major TeX
AS> archives.
How to get modes.mf from the archive at
Dept. of Computer Science, Utrecht University:
NOTE: In the following I have assumed your mail address is john@highbrow.edu.
Of course you must substitute your own address for this. This should be
a valid internet or uucp address. For bitnet users name@host.BITNET
usually works.
by FTP: (please restrict access to weekends or evening/night (i.e. between
about 20.00 and 0900 UTC).
ftp archive.cs.ruu.nl [131.211.80.5]
user name: anonymous or ftp
password: your own email address (e.g. john@highbrow.edu)
cd /pub
don't forget to set binary mode if the file is a tar/arc/zoo archive,
compressed or in any other way contains binary data.
get TEX/MF/modes.mf
by mail-server:
send the following message to
mail-server@cs.ruu.nl (or uunet!mcsun!hp4nl!ruuinf!mail-server):
begin
path john@highbrow.edu (PLEASE SUBSTITUTE *YOUR* ADDRESS)
send TEX/MF/modes.mf
end
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