cczdao@clan.clan.nott.ac.uk (David Osborne) (03/19/89)
In article <350@zeus.hf.intel.com> martin@zeus.hf.intel.com (Martin Wilde) writes: >Does anyone know the whereabouts of C versions of the MetaFont >utilities. I am trying to use TeX on a Unix V.3.2 machine and >I don't have the bezerkly pascal compiler..... you need the Web-to-C package, by Tim Morgan and Tomas Rokicki, which generates `special' Pascal from Tangle by using new changefiles ...the Pascal is then translated into C. all the `big' products, like TeX and METAFONT can be translated, and there are Web-to-C changefiles for most of the utilities like Weave, Tangle and the font-handling tools such as GFtoPK, TFtoPL, PLtoTF and so on. i'm using the C versions of all these on this System V.2 machine. Web-to-C has been on the Washington Unix TeX tapes since about May last year, i think. dave. -- David Osborne Cripps Computing Centre, University of Nottingham, Nottingham NG7 2RD, UK (Phone: +44 602 484848 x2064) JANET: d.osborne@uk.ac.nott.clan