ken@csis.dit.csiro.au (Ken Yap) (01/03/91)
[Sorry if you see this twice, my damaged brain made me type comp.sys.tex in an attempt to cross-post the first time.] I have just finished a port of web2c 5.8a TeX and METAFONT to the Tandy 6000. I have deposited the diffs at plains.ndsu.nodak.edu. Also there are a couple of useful programs I needed, shortc and a (free) flexnames cpp. I will mail the diffs to people without FTP only if they have already acquired the web2c sources. Without those (sizable) sources, these diffs are useless. Here is the start of the README file: These are diffs to allow TeX 3.1 and METAFONT 2.7 to be compiled and run on a Tandy 6000. They have passed the trip and trap tests. You will need at least 1M of memory for TeX to be any use to you. You will also need about 15M of disk space to compile the sources. These diffs are against web2-5.8a and web-5.8a, which I got from ics.uci.edu. Other versions, especially older ones, are not likely to work. You will also need to get the macros and fonts. The canonical archive site for these is labrea.stanford.edu. And don't forget you will need a driver to print the DVI files generated. For Postscript printers, I highly recommend dvips by Tom Rokicki. This is also archived at labrea. You will need two pieces of auxiliary software, a flexnames cpp and a program to detect long name clashes. I used der Mouse's cpp and someone else's shortc, both of which you will find elsewhere on this archive site. You will need to make a version of cc that calls this cpp (which I installed as /lib/xpp). I made mine by patching the string "cpp" to "xpp" in /bin/cc and saving as /bin/xcc. (This cpp is a space and time hog, though it gets the job done. Another free cpp you may prefer is the GNU cpp. I haven't tried this though.) ..