mikeg@dali.gatech.edu (Mike Gourlay) (11/26/90)
To: cms.manchester-computing-center.ac.uk!ZLSIIAL }SHELL should make a difference. I would be more likely to }suspect your g++. I would gladly compile a version of groff }with you options in it and send it to you... Thanks. The options that you had in your Makefile are fine. It might be just as easy, though, if you just tar up everything with an absolute path so I could untar it and have everything like you have it. ]The dvi2lj is a shell script as follows: ] #! /bin/sh ] /usr/contrib/bin/dvijep -b $* | lp -dlaser -oraw -onb ] exit #? ]The dvijep program is a standard Beebe utility, but with a ]few local modifications, because we store our pk files in the ]directories /usr/lib/tex/fontbits/laser/cmr10 as 300pk, and ]so forth, and to make use of : consistent in various variables. I don't know what a Beebe utility is. If it is public domain, could you include it in the tar file for me? If it is a bought program, please tell me more about it, who makes it, how I can get it. ]Once more, I am serious about trying a compilation with your ]options and doing a tar|compress|btoa and shipping it to you ]via email! So many people have saved me work by their help ]that I would be delighted to pass on the favour! I suppose btoa is binary to ascii, similar to uuencode. I noticed that I don't have uudecode on penguin, but I have other computers with uudecode. If there is a program called atob, I don't have that either. Instead of using email, would you consider ftp'ing to here? It should work in the standard way, just ftp here with user name anonymous, any password, and send to the pub directory. I don't have anything available for anonymous ftp, 'cause I don't have myself set up to be a host or anything, but I might start providing binaries for HPUX people because I've had so much trouble getting things to work that aren't available in binary form. If you try to ftp and it fails, please send the tar file to me via email, along with a message telling me what prevented you from ftp'ing. If you ftp and succeed, please email me to let me know that it's there, because I probably won't think to look. You suspect that my g++ is causing the trouble? I tried to build g++ myself, and failed for the most part. That is mostly because of the incompatibility between HPUX binary headers and GNU headers. The GNU linker didn't work at all and I have know idea how to make the conversion program between HPUX and GNU. I got the binaries from someone else, and I don't know what options the version I have is compiled with. Do you know what might be causing my problems with groff? It bothers me that g++ could be misbehaving, since I use it and will use it often. Thanks for your help, Mike mike@penguin.gatech.edu or gatech!penguin!mike PS: Obviously I can't get mail to you. What is the matter with sending it to the above address? Do you have an InterNet address that isn't bang path? Or do you have a more explicit path? I hope these messages are beneficial to other readers.