monardo@renoir.Berkeley.EDU (Pat Monardo) (08/23/87)
In article <2883@mit-hermes.AI.MIT.EDU> you write: >In article <8011@mimsy.UUCP> chris@mimsy.UUCP (Chris Torek) writes: >>In article <18415UH2@PSUVM> UH2@PSUVM.BITNET (Lee Sailer) writes, in part: >>>CTeX passes the TeX torture test, which basically means you can't >>>find a better, more powerful version. >By "the TeX torture test" you mean the "TRIP test", described in a >Stanford report called something like "TRIP: A torture test for TeX" >by Knuth. Common TeX also passes this test. I have ported Common TeX ver 2.1 to UNIX PC. In fact I took the code sitting on my AT straight to the UNIX PC running 3.5 and it compiled and passed the trip test without so much as looking at a line of code. I've been sending the AT version for a while now and have ported it back to UNIX so that the DOS and UNIX are completely integrated. It is back on ucbvax:/pub/ctex21.tar.Z. This version will pass lint except that i didnt bother to cast unsigned into int for the libraries. Also, TeX's memory is NOT limited to 256K or 64K. It simply states that it is limited by what a halfword will index, e.g., a halfword can be (and should be) 32bits. pat
finegan@uccba.UUCP (Mike Finegan) (08/25/87)
> I have ported Common TeX ver 2.1 to UNIX PC. In fact I took > It is back on ucbvax:/pub/ctex21.tar.Z. > This version will pass lint except that i didnt bother to cast > unsigned into int for the libraries. I am not familiar with the Unix PC, but would like to get TeX running on a 3B2/400 running SysV. I have the Pascal public domain version, and haven't tried it yet, as the flyer that came with it sounded like it wouldn't be easy. The C version sounds more reasonable (I would rather look at C than Pascal), but what would be the difficulties? Does TeX have low level hooks, or could I port the Common Tex that worked on the Unix PC? If you have tried and failed, please speak up also! ;-) Also, if you want the C version, how can you get it? (No ftp access) Thanks, it will eventually be on SysV, Mike Finegan ...hal!uccba!finegan ...hal!uccba!ucece1!finegan
sean@ms.uky.edu (Sean Casey) (08/26/87)
Just for the halibut, I'm going to see if it will run on an Amiga under
Manx 3.40a.
Sean
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-- "I...am a shrubber..." -- Roger the Shrubbercraig@macbeth.Princeton.EDU (Craig Kolb) (08/27/87)
In article <1217@uccba.UUCP> finegan@uccba.UUCP (Mike Finegan) writes: > I am not familiar with the Unix PC, but would like to get TeX running > on a 3B2/400 running SysV. I've ported CTeX 2.0 to the 3B2/310. Drop me a line if you're interested in the diffs & a version of undump for the 3B20 put together by Michael Hrybyk. I'd imagine a 2.1 port would be even more trivial than the 2.0 port was. -- Craig Kolb craig@macbeth.Princeton.EDU {princeton,astrovax}!macbeth!craig