napi@rangkom.MY (Mohd Hanafiah b. Abdullah) (09/24/90)
Dear netters, I am having a problem installing TEX3.0. We have a Convex C220 running Convex UNIX 8.1. When I tried to 'undump' either TeX or LaTeX, I was given "a.out file doesn't have legal magic number". The 'undump' source code was given with the TeX distribution. This is what happened: %initex plain *\dump % %virtex \&plain *control-\ % %undump tex virtex core %a.out file doesn't have legal magic number I am not sure whether the problem lies with the magic number of 'virtex' or with the 'undump' program itself. BTW, I could not find any '#define UPAGES ...' at all in the filesystem. I wonder what is the UPAGES on your system. Due to its absence, I defined UPAGES to be 8. Is that ok? Thanks in advance. Hanafiah
av@kielo.uta.fi (Arto V. Viitanen) (09/26/90)
>>>>> On 24 Sep 90 08:03:41 GMT, napi@rangkom.MY (Mohd Hanafiah b. Abdullah) said:
Mohd> I am having a problem installing TEX3.0.
Mohd> We have a Convex C220 running Convex UNIX 8.1. When I tried to 'undump'
Mohd> either TeX or LaTeX, I was given "a.out file doesn't have legal magic
Mohd> number". The 'undump' source code was given with the TeX distribution.
Mohd> %undump tex virtex core
Mohd> %a.out file doesn't have legal magic number
Mohd> I am not sure whether the problem lies with the magic number of 'virtex' or
Mohd> with the 'undump' program itself.
You can check the magic number of virtex by file(1) program i.e if
file virtex
tells that virtex is same type as 'file initex', then undump is not either
for Convex or for wrong operating system version.
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Arto V. Viitanen email: av@kielo.uta.fi
University Of Tampere, av@ohdake.cs.uta.fi
Finlandhaccme@milton.u.washington.edu (Thomas Ridgeway) (09/26/90)
In article <286@rangkom.MY> napi@rangkom.MY (Mohd Hanafiah b. Abdullah) writes: > >Dear netters, > >I am having a problem installing TEX3.0. > >We have a Convex C220 running Convex UNIX 8.1. When I tried to 'undump' >either TeX or LaTeX, I was given "a.out file doesn't have legal magic >number". The 'undump' source code was given with the TeX distribution. > [details of problem omitted] > >Thanks in advance. > >Hanafiah This is not the answer which was requested, however --- as stated in the UnixTeX distribution, the undumped preloaded format versions of TeX were always very hacky machine dependent gadgets which are no longer recommended. Included below is a copy of the file 0UNSUPPORTED from the UnixTex3.0 distribution's undump directory: The programs in this directory are now basically unsupported. For almost all systems, undumped TeX is an inferior approach and the intrinsic machine dependency of these programs makes them too costly to maintain with any promise of reliability. In short, don't do it at all. Just prepare the format files and let TeX load them at runtime. [The distribution READMEs have further comment on the matter] cheerio, Tom - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Thomas Ridgeway Director, Humanities and Arts Computing Center/NorthWest Computing Support Center 35 Thomson Hall University of Washington, DR-10 Seattle, WA 98195 (206)-543-4218 Internet: ridgeway@blackbox.hacc.washington.edu - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -