[comp.text.tex] Undump for Unix Sys V/386

glenn@suphys.physics.su.OZ.AU (Glenn Geers) (11/22/90)

Hi,
	Would some kind soul tell me where I can grab (ftp is ok) undump for
System V/386 r3.2. 
					Thanks,
						Glenn


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tml@tik.vtt.fi (Tor Lillqvist) (11/23/90)

In article <1990Nov22.070204.21480@metro.ucc.su.OZ.AU> glenn@suphys.physics.su.OZ.AU (Glenn Geers) writes:

	   Would some kind soul tell me where I can grab (ftp is ok) undump for
   System V/386 r3.2. 

My advice is to forget undump.  Undumping was necessary when running
TeX on microVAXen etc.  A 386 should be able to read the format files
fast enough.
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pcg@cs.aber.ac.uk (Piercarlo Grandi) (11/27/90)

On 22 Nov 90 18:31:04 GMT, tml@tik.vtt.fi (Tor Lillqvist) said:

tml> In article <1990Nov22.070204.21480@metro.ucc.su.OZ.AU>
tml> glenn@suphys.physics.su.OZ.AU (Glenn Geers) writes:

glenn> Would some kind soul tell me where I can grab (ftp is ok) undump
glenn> for System V/386 r3.2.

tml> My advice is to forget undump.  Undumping was necessary when running
tml> TeX on microVAXen etc.  A 386 should be able to read the format files
tml> fast enough.

Yes, it is. But the new Common Tex 3.0 which uses fully dynamic memory
allocation (no longer problems with fixed size tables and several
executables!) does not support format files yet. Too bad. What I have
done, and you can do it yourself easily, is to snarf unexec.c from the
GNU Emacs distribution and put it in the place of the suicide code and
the undump command. The relevant mods for Common Tex 3.0 BETA I have
already sent to Pat Monardo. Only a couple dozen lines really.
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