[comp.text.tex] Emtex Metafont Showit doesn't work for me...

wyman@blumon.enet.dec.com (Bob Wyman) (03/09/91)

I'm using the Metafont provided with Emtex as distributed on the DECUS
TEX tape.
My machine is a Toshiba T1100+ laptop running Dos 3.1 with 640K memory.

When I try to follow the first experiment in the Metafont book I get nothing
displayed on my screen... I've tried invoking Metafont with MF/gc but
that doesn't seem to do anything useful. All other Metafont functions appear
to work well. It's only "showit" that doesn't do anything useful.

Now, Emtex is widely distributed and appears to be well respected. Thus, I'm
assuming the problem here is "pilot error." I would appreciate it if one
of you Em-texperts could give me some background on how to get this working.

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