[comp.text.tex] MF2PS-- does anyone have it running on a Sun4?

chet@Advansoft.COM (Chet Wood) (03/29/91)

I picked up a copy of mf2ps a while back and read the TUGboat article.
I looks like a very useful tool, but I don't have a pascal compiler so
can't make it here. 

In the article, the authors admit that they should have made their
modifications in the web source, rather than the pascal, and indicate
that they intend to "fix" this deficiency. Does anyone know how it's
going? Is anyone else working on this? Perhaps, if someone has gotten
the program compiled on a sun4, they might be willing to share their
binaries...?

Thanks very much.
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jipping@cs.hope.edu (Mike Jipping) (03/29/91)

> I picked up a copy of mf2ps a while back and read the TUGboat article.
> I looks like a very useful tool, but I don't have a pascal compiler so
> can't make it here. 
> 
> ... Perhaps, if someone has gotten
> the program compiled on a sun4, they might be willing to share their
> binaries...?

I picked up mf2ps -- but it doesn't work.  I compiled it on a Sun-3 and
when I run it, it finds the plain.base file, but claims there is a base
file error and exits.  I use the plain.base supplied with mf2ps.

I'd be more than happy to share binaries -- Sun3 or Sun4 -- if this darn
thing would work.  It's a cool idea!  Does anyone have a fix to this
problem?  

      Mike Jipping
      Hope College Department of Computer Science
      jipping@cs.hope.edu  (BITNET: JIPPING@HOPE)

      "If is was so, it might be, and if it were so, it would be.
       But as it isn't, it ain't.  That's logic."
                                              -- Lewis Carroll