[comp.sys.sgi] TeX on Iris 4D

lamy@ai.utoronto.ca (Jean-Francois Lamy) (11/10/89)

There are several such sprintf and similar redefinitions in the file (nuke the
attempts, anything that relies on the return status is suffering from brain-rot
and ought to be exposed).

Other things need to be changed (the definition of schar, as I recall).  If
you want to compile from the source, a version of TeX 2.991 (the latest stable
one, 2.992 is considered to be beta) that works on SGIs can be found on
neat.cs.toronto.edu pub/tex.tar.* (it also works on Suns, DS3100s, uVaxen, and
so on).

Does your underfull hbox problem occur on every file you try?  I would start
by checking that the creation of the .fmt file proceeded with absolutely
no error (in particular when loading the hyphenation stuff).

Jean-Francois Lamy               lamy@ai.utoronto.ca, uunet!ai.utoronto.ca!lamy
AI Group, Department of Computer Science, University of Toronto, Canada M5S 1A4