dhosek@sif.claremont.edu (Hosek, Donald A.) (05/25/90)
I'm just finishing up the change file for VMS TeX 3.0 (based on Brian Hamilton Kelly's change file) and would like to get some comments on VMS TeX from the readers of this group: -Is there any real reason why the standard version of TeX should not be a 64-bit TeX with 200,000-some-odd words of main memory? It would seem that under VMS, main memory concerns are not that big of a deal. Perhaps someone familiar with TeX and VMS internals can comment on this. -Is anybody out there using an editor other than EDT, TPU, LSE or TECO on VMS? In particular, I'm interested in knowing about editors with callable interfaces. The current change file supports accessing any of the listed editors directly or other editors in a subprocess, but it shouldn't be too difficult to add support for other editors. -Should VMS TeX print characters in the range 160-254? Standard TeX, will print ^^a0 through ^^fe for these characters if they should appear in the log file or be sent to the terminal. -Should pool files have an extension of .poo or .pool? That's all for now, but there may be more to come. -dh --- Don Hosek "When I was younger, I would throw dhosek@ymir.claremont.edu spitballs at girls that I liked. Now, dhosek@ymir.bitnet I beg and plead for dates. Frankly, the uunet!jarthur!ymir old way was more satisfying."
dougcc@csv.viccol.edu.au (05/29/90)
In article <7260@jarthur.Claremont.EDU>, dhosek@sif.claremont.edu (Hosek, Donald A.) writes: > I'm just finishing up the change file for VMS TeX 3.0 (based on > Brian Hamilton Kelly's change file) and would like to get some > comments on VMS TeX from the readers of this group: > > -Is there any real reason why the standard version of TeX should > not be a 64-bit TeX with 200,000-some-odd words of main memory? > It would seem that under VMS, main memory concerns are not that > big of a deal. Perhaps someone familiar with TeX and VMS > internals can comment on this. At least this much, I would say. We've been running happily with over 300,000. > -Should VMS TeX print characters in the range 160-254? Standard > TeX, will print ^^a0 through ^^fe for these characters if > they should appear in the log file or be sent to the terminal. Definitely print them literally. If you are trying to, say, make the copyright character on a VT200 or VT300 into macro to produce a copyright symbol, then TeX should output the copyright character when you get it wrong (i.e., because it will display as a copright symbol on your terminal). > -Should pool files have an extension of .poo or .pool? .pool is MUCH better. > That's all for now, but there may be more to come. Good questions, thanks for taking the trouble to canvas opinion.