dhosek@hmcvax.claremont.edu (Hosek, Donald A.) (06/07/90)
In article <27721@eerie.acsu.Buffalo.EDU>, acsgmmd@ubvmsb.cc.buffalo.edu (Mary Deck) writes... >I'm working with VMS 5.2 and PASCAL 3.9. Since I don't have PASCAL >4.0, I got tex.obj and linked it, but I can't get it to work. The >problem described above sounds suspiciously like the problem I'm >having. (When I try to run TeX it "can't find" any format files, even >if I specify one explicitly, and when I try to run IniTex it "can't >find" tex.pool.) >Does ymir.claremont.edu:[anonymous.tex.sources.tex3_0]tex.obj contain >the necessary changes? Has anyone else had this problem? Has anyone else >in the same situation gotten TeX running? Yes. Not as far as I know. Yes. Possible problems: (1) Are you running TeX through the CLI? Try typing SHOW SYM TEX. If everything is set up properly, VMS should respond with an undefined symbol error. If not, you should remove the definitions from your TeX setup file (and make sure that you've also installed TEX.CLD into the system command files). (2) Make sure that the logical names specified as the defaults for /TEXFORMATS are the ones used on your system. The CLD file on ymir.claremont.edu uses TEX_FORMATS rather than the non-DEC-compliant TEX$FORMATS (you'll probably want to make similar checks for /TEXFONTS and /TEXINPUTS). There are some rudimentary installation instructions in the CLD file on ymir that should be of some help. I'll be writing a more comprehensive installation guide somewhere along the line. -dh --- Don Hosek "Other people get into occupations by dhosek@ymir.claremont.edu accident or design; but writers are born. dhosek@ymir.bitnet We have to write. I have to write. I uunet!jarthur!ymir could work at selling motels, or slopping hogs, for fifty years, but if someone asked me my occupation, I'd say writer, even if I'd never sold a word. Writers _write_. Other people _talk_." -W.P. Kinsella