ira@zorch.SF-Bay.ORG (Ira Chayut) (01/17/91)
This is being posted for a friend without direct USENET access, please respond directly to him. Thanks. (Sorry for this being posted a second time, the first only had local distribution.) ---- I have a copy of a program called "mkfont" (posted to the net at some time in the past by Duane H. Hesser, dhh@teltone.com) which duplicates the action of the AT&T DWB "makedev" program (useful because the default action in DWB is to not install makedev, and as a result, some binary-only DWB installations don't have a makedev). In the README file for this program, there is the following note: >If you use these to produce Postscript font files, be aware of the >standard ditroff limit of 10 fonts (enforced by core dump). I believe >patches to fix this and other bugs are in the USENET archives >somewhere. For those of you with Pyramids, RTOC can send you a >version which will handle up to 25 files; otherwise you'll have to >pick and chose. NOTE: mkfont will compile them fine (as will >makedev), but ditroff won't like 'em. I have poked through the listing of files available on UUNET, and through a recent comp.sources.unix index, and don't find any reference to such a package of fixes. If such fixes are indeed available, legal, and someone knows of their whereabouts - or better yet, has them and can send them to me - I would be most appreciative. Oh - and while we're at it, if anyone has patches to pic, that would be helpful as well. Trying to get this working reliably on a client's machine, with what appears to be DWB 2.0. The version string in pic is 1.10, in {n,t}roff 2.13. Since I have not been able to arrange news access in my current incarnation as a consultant, please reply by mail at the address below. (Alternatively, alruna is in the maps, so if you have a working mail router with pathalias it should be able to find me). Naturally, if there is a flood of requests, (but why would there be?), I'll try to get out a followup... Thanks, Mats Wichmann UNIX / X Windows Consultant uunet!unisoft!alruna!mats