rsexton@uceng.UC.EDU (robert sexton) (09/15/88)
Greetings, fellow TeXer's. I'm currently trying to get TeX up and going on a HP-UX series 900 model 840. I haven't tried to get undump going yet, but I've been attacking things from other directions. Mostly building TeX fron the ground up from the UNIX distribution tape. It appears that installation would be quite easy if I was running BSD, SunOS, or 3B2 sysV. I'm not however, and I'm really hanging on where to start. The tape is pretty vague with regards to bringing it up on an unsupported UNIX machine. I've been trying to get tangle compiled, but it has been very resistant to this process. the only thing I can get to work is web2c. I would think this would be all I need, but it seems nobody documented the software, so I can't seem to get it to run tangle, tex, etc. If anybody out there could detail the use of web2c, or would be kind enough to detail the steps I'll need to go through, I'd be much appreciative. Robert Sexton, University of Cincinnati rsexton@uceng.uc.edu tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!uccba!uceng!rsexton Box Full O' Transputers... The Breakfast with MIPS I do not speak for UC, They don't speak for me.
finegan@ucqais.uc.edu (Mike Finegan) (09/16/88)
While you may believe that having a 3B2 would solve your TeX installation
problems, believe me - it would not. On your HP840 you have the ability to
set up a file system (don't ask me exactly how) to use file names > 14 chars.
That inability - along with the pascal compiler nonsense - has made it almost
impossible to install TeX. I have gotten common tex2.9 running (as you could),
but am waiting for ics.uci.edu to go back on line before I can try web2c, etc.
Anyway - you should be able to install the TeX distribution from the Univ.
of Washington. We have an HP840 here, and it was installed after the file
name modification, mentioned above. If you have problems I will ask that
System Administrator to drop you a line, but he probably doesn't have a lot of
time - maybe you can send a tape and get an image of his TeX directory ...
Please try the default distribution first, though.
Good Luck,
Mike Finegan
finegan@ucqais.uc.edu