[comp.text.tex] Correction for DECUS TeX Collection August 1990

ted@nieland.DAYTON.OH.US (Ted Nieland) (11/22/90)

A problem has been found with the STARTUP.COM in the DECUS TeX Collection
of August 1990.  This problem affects the DVI2LN03 DVI driver included in
the collection.

The problem is that the driver looks up the TFM files via the logical name
TEX$FONTS instead of using the TEX_FONTS.  This results in the DVI driver 
reporting the font characters are incorrect.

To correct the problem edit the STARTUP.COM file in [TEX.EXE] to include
a logical name definition for TEX$FONTS that is the same as the one for
TEX_FONTS (or change the code for DVI2LN03 to use the TEX_FONTS logical, which
is what I will be doing to the master collection).

Sorry about the problem, but I was not able to get access to a "clean" machine 
(one that did not already have an old TeX installation) to test the collection
and I was caught by the fact the TEX$FONTS was legal and good definition on 
the system I was using to create collection.  [Anyone have a VAX system they 
can give me to continue the development of the collection under conditions I
can control?  ;)   ]


If anyone finds any other problems with the DECUS TeX Collection, please send
the notices to decus-tex@nieland.dayton.oh.us.
--
M. Edward (Ted) Nieland
DECUS TeX Collection Editor
Ted@NIELAND.DAYTON.OH.US     (aka  uunet!dayvb!nieland!ted)