xiaofei@acsu.buffalo.edu (Xiaofei Wang) (02/27/91)
I checked the emTeX distribution disks that there is no initex going with it. If I use sb30tex's initex and its formats and so on, is there a problem in compatibility? -- xiaofei@acsu.buffalo.edu / rutgers!ub!xiaofei / v118raqa@ubvms.bitnet
dhosek@gauss.claremont.edu (Don Hosek) (02/27/91)
In article <62072@eerie.acsu.Buffalo.EDU>, xiaofei@acsu.buffalo.edu (Xiaofei Wang) writes: > I checked the emTeX distribution disks that there is no initex going with > it. If I use sb30tex's initex and its formats and so on, is there a > problem in compatibility? Yes. Certain TeX implementations do not have a separate executable for IniTeX. These include PCTeX, emTeX and PD VMS TeX. Instead a command line switch is used to indicate that IniTeX is being used. To generate plain.fmt, for example, the possible commands are: PCTeX: TEX plain "\dump" /i emTeX: TEX /i plain \dump VMSTeX: TEX/INIT/NOFORMAT "plain \dump" (although one usually sets INITEX :== TEX/INIT/NOFORMAT) -dh --- Don Hosek To retrieve files from ymir via the | dhosek@ymir.claremont.edu mailserver, send a message to | Quixote TeX Consulting mailserv@ymir.claremont.edu with a | 714-625-0147 line saying send [DIRECTORY]FILENAME where DIRECTORY is the FTP directory (sans "anonymous") and FILENAME is the filename, e.g. "send [tex]00readme.txt". There is a list of files in each directory under the name 00files.txt Binary files are not available by this technique.
HAN@FRECP12.BITNET (Jay Thierry HAN) (02/27/91)
In article <62072@eerie.acsu.Buffalo.EDU>, xiaofei@acsu.buffalo.edu (Xiaofei Wang) says: > >I checked the emTeX distribution disks that there is no initex going with >it. If I use sb30tex's initex and its formats and so on, is there a >problem in compatibility? emTeX doesn't have a initex because the same executable (TEX.EXE or TEX286.EXE) can do normal TeX compiling AND initex format generation (switch /i for INITEX) Therefore, you can (and must! .. see below) re-create the formats using emTeX. Usually, formats are NOT interchangeable from one executable to another. They are highly implementation-dependent. You can't use formats generated by SB30TEX with emTeX and vice-versa. As far as I know (am I right?) formats are memory dumps. If two implementations don't use the same memory organization and/or data structures, they generate incompatible formats. This is even more so between SBTeX and emTeX, because the former was written in Pascal (Turbo-Pascal I think) and the latter was translated and optimized in C. Hope this helps. J.T.H.
mattes@azu.informatik.uni-stuttgart.de (Eberhard Mattes) (02/28/91)
> I checked the emTeX distribution disks that there is no initex going with > it. If I use sb30tex's initex and its formats and so on, is there a > problem in compatibility? Both questions are answered in the `frequently asked questions' file of emTeX: help.eng. Please check this file before posting. -- Eberhard Mattes (mattes@azu.informatik.uni-stuttgart.de)