[comp.text] Wanted: slitex

beth@stripe.ACA.MCC.COM (Beth Paxton) (06/14/89)

This has probably appeared on the net many times before, but being fairly
new to news, I haven't seen it.  I am looking for a copy of slitex that
will compile and run on a Sun3 running SunOS3.5. 

In a tex82 directory on our system, I have a directory called LaTeXslitex and
it contains the following files:
Sfontlist.txt, sfonts.tex, slides.{doc,sty,tex}, slitex.tex, splain.tex.

This has not been compiled (run through TeX).  I do the following and
get an 'EMT trap(core dumped)' error.  Perhaps you could tell me what
I am doing wrong or tell me where I can get a 'clean' copy of SliTeX:

Steps performed:

1. initex
   ** splain \dump

	(some fonts are not found, but a splain.fmt is created.  The
	version of TeX used is 2.0, LaTeX version 2.09)

2.  cp splain.fmt /usr/lib/tex/macros/splain.fmt

3.  virtex
    ** &splain \read 0 to\blort

	(this brings up SliTex version 2.09 and the \blort prompt)
    \blort=^\

    *^\

	(this dumps core, as I would expect -- now I need to undump core
	so that it is in a usable form -- now the trouble begins)

4.  undump slitex virtex core

	(get the EMT trap (core dumped) error)


Thanks for any help you can give on this.  Please email the answers to
me directly and I will repost to this newsgroup.

Thanks,
Beth Paxton
MCC, Austin, TX
(512)338-3494
email: paxton@mcc.com