herbie@dec18.cs.monash.edu.au (Andrew Herbert) (03/10/91)
I am using the Unix C TeX 3.0 distribution, but can't get virmf to undump base files created by inimf. inimf creates the base file ok (for example, cmmf.base from cmmf.mf as described in the documentation), but when I run cmmf (hard linked to virmf), it crashes with "Fatal base file error; I'm stymied". On further investigation, it turns out that virmf is dying while undumping the string pool (in mf.web function load_base_file, or mf8.c loadbasefile()). Values at the time of the failure are: k=760, x=2622767, poolptr=25733, strptr=1693. I have tried compiling with both gcc 1.39 and the native 386 SysVR4 cc, neither want to work. tex/latex work fine. Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated. Thanks, Andrew Herbert herbie@bruce.cs.monash.edu