ellis@chips.sri.com (Michael Ellis) (08/04/89)
Is it hopeless to try to compile a usable version of METAFONT running under SunOS 4.0.3? We have Sun4's and Sun3's, and the SunOS PASCAL compiler on our Sun3'S After struggling a bit with the METAFONT 84 sources, it seems as though I may have to write a fair number of functions to simulate I/O primitives not provided in the SunOS I/O runtime library that METAFONT expects (break, breakin, erstat, close) in addition to writing sed-scripts replacing certain PASCAL keywords (others:) with SunOS PASCAL keywords (otherwise). Incompatibilities at such a gross level leave me wondering whether I am embarking on a doomed effort. Has anyone else ever been here before? Can METAFONT be made to run under SunOS 4.0.3? How? -michael
grunwald@flute.cs.uiuc.edu (Dirk Grunwald) (08/04/89)
yes, it's easy to make metafont run under SunOs; just hang up the Pascal and use the Web2C package. You can FTP the source from june.cs.washington.edu. Works very well. Also produces TeX and Bibtex. Works with all C compilers I've tried.
ken@cs.rochester.edu (Ken Yap) (08/04/89)
| Is it hopeless to try to compile a usable version of METAFONT | running under SunOS 4.0.3? We have Sun4's and Sun3's, and the SunOS | PASCAL compiler on our Sun3'S Why futz with the MF in Pascal version? Get the Web2c version from a recent distribution.