bjs@beach.cis.ufl.edu (Brian J. Smith) (05/17/89)
Last edited: Tue May 16 23:30:12 1989 by bjs (Brian J. Smith) on beach
I dont know if I will get any response on this message but ya got
to try.
I was wondering if someone out there has made a port of TeX to
a HP9000/xxx of computer. If so do you have diffs... can I get
them.
If the answer is no to both ( or just the first ) has anybody
tried to convert it to work ?
Thanks A 1,000,000
Brian John Smith
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Brian J. Smith
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bjs@beach.cis.ufl.edudunlap@apl-em.UUCP (John Dunlap) (05/22/89)
> I was wondering if someone out there has made a port of TeX to > a HP9000/xxx of computer. If so do you have diffs... can I get > them. I have a letter dated Aug 19, 1985 about TeX82 on the series 500 from Jamie Bacon at Thermodynamics Research Center The Texas A&M University System College Station, Texas 77843-3111 (409) 845-4940 Other contacts there are Ken Marsh or Gregory Marriott They may have upgraded to other series of the 9000. I have never seen or tried this package. John Dunlap APL/UW (206) 543-1300
wunder@hp-ses.SDE.HP.COM (Walter Underwood) (05/25/89)
I was wondering if someone out there has made a port of TeX to a HP9000/xxx of computer. If so do you have diffs... can I get them. We use the TeX-in-C (CommonTeX? I can never remember) all the time. Works great. Pascal portablity is rather difficult, since some of the Pascal compilers on the HP9000s come from different ancestors (HP9000/800 is from the HP3000 family). C is the safe bet. I don't have a contact for the source, perhaps some TeX hacker will reply. wunder
tml@hemuli.atk.vtt.fi (Tor Lillqvist) (05/25/89)
Well, if you get the latest Unix-TeX distribution, I don't think you will have any great difficulties compiling TeX. TeX isn't be very sensitive to Unix version differences. I think the Unix-TeX tape comes with a web-to-C translation program, so you will not need any Pascal compiler. -- Tor Lillqvist Technical Research Centre of Finland, Computing Services (VTT/ATK) tml@hemuli.atk.vtt.fi [130.188.52.2]
burzio@mmlai.UUCP (Tony Burzio) (05/25/89)
In article <3988@hemuli.atk.vtt.fi>, tml@hemuli.atk.vtt.fi (Tor Lillqvist) writes: > Well, if you get the latest Unix-TeX distribution, I don't think you > will have any great difficulties compiling TeX. TeX isn't be very > sensitive to Unix version differences. I think the Unix-TeX tape > comes with a web-to-C translation program, so you will not need any > Pascal compiler. The UNIX TeX distribution from Univ. Washington compiles and produces DVI files, but none of the previewers/displayers work. Anyone have a working output program for X or postscript? ********************************************************************* Tony Burzio * I want McDraw for X!!! Martin Marietta Labs * mmlai!burzio@uunet.uu.net * *********************************************************************
ray@vantage.UUCP (Ray Liere) (05/26/89)
You may want to contact: Bo Thide' Swedish Institute of Space Physics He was working on TEX for the 300 and 500 series -- I have not communicated with him recently, but the email address that I used was: mcvax!enea!kuling!irfu!bt Ray Liere Vantage Consulting and Research Corporation voice: (503)657-7294 uucp: hplabs!hpfcla!hpubvwa!vantage!ray
tml@hemuli.atk.vtt.fi (Tor Lillqvist) (05/26/89)
In article <556@mmlai.UUCP> burzio@mmlai.UUCP (Tony Burzio) writes: >The UNIX TeX distribution from Univ. Washington compiles and produces >DVI files, but none of the previewers/displayers work. Anyone have a >working output program for X or postscript? I have both xdvi (from comp.sources.x) and dvialw ("Apple LaserWriter") from the Beebe drver family working on our hp9000s800. Neither needed any major surgery to work. -- Tor Lillqvist Technical Research Centre of Finland, Computing Services (VTT/ATK) tml@hemuli.atk.vtt.fi [130.188.52.2]
paul@mecazh.UUCP (Paul Breslaw) (05/30/89)
In article <556@mmlai.UUCP> burzio@mmlai.UUCP (Tony Burzio) writes: >The UNIX TeX distribution from Univ. Washington compiles and produces >DVI files, but none of the previewers/displayers work. Anyone have a >working output program for X or postscript? I also had no problem building TeX and LaTeX using the Washington distribution and web2c on a 319 and 340 under 6.2 and 6.5. Under the current X11 distribution from HP (== MIT Release 2) we use xdvi from comp.sources.x. No problem here. Under X10, HP supplied a hack to the old xdvi (xdvi-hp) which was built with the X10 XRay kit. Again no problems. PostScript output falls into two parts:- For printers: dvi2ps available on the Washington tape needed a very small amount of massage to work. For displays: This is less succesful. We use the Rutherford Labs (UK) X11 version PostScript interpreter (ralpage) for drafting easy pictures and include them in LaTeX files with psfigtex. I have not yet been able to get dvi2ps output of complete documents to successfully display through ralpage. Fortunately xdvi kindly leaves a 'Watch This Space' space where the PS should appear, so we manage. Paul Breslaw. mcvax!cernvax!mecazh!paul
hwt@bnr-public.uucp (Henry Troup) (05/31/89)
Try ArborText, Inc for a commercial implementation. help@arbortext.com or sales@arbortext.com might do. This is a personal opinion only. I am a satisfied customer of ArborText. BNR's opinion may vary. utgpu!bnr-vpa!bnr-fos!hwt%bnr-public | BNR is not | All that evil requires hwt@bnr (BITNET/NETNORTH) | responsible for | is that good men do (613) 765-2337 (Voice) | my opinions | nothing.