[comp.sys.mac.apps] Mainframe

mchupa@brahms.udel.edu (Michael A Chupa) (03/21/91)

My understanding of OzTeX is that it sets up its font files
(.tfm and pk files) in the same manner as mainframe implementations
of TeX. Does anyone out there have experience in (successful)
Kermit'ing down of .tfm and .pkxxx files? I have been able to
successfully install several .tfm files, but OzTeX complains
of 'bad fixwords' in the pk files I have installed.

allbery@NCoast.ORG (Brandon S. Allbery KB8JRR/AA) (03/26/91)

As quoted from <19856@brahms.udel.edu> by mchupa@brahms.udel.edu (Michael A Chupa):
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| of TeX. Does anyone out there have experience in (successful)
| Kermit'ing down of .tfm and .pkxxx files? I have been able to
| successfully install several .tfm files, but OzTeX complains
| of 'bad fixwords' in the pk files I have installed.
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I built and successfully copied and used several fonts for OzTeX before taking
it of my disk (40MB can fill up surprisingly quickly... and I don't have a PS
printer or an ImageWriter, so OzTeX is less than useful to me --- neither the
Grappler nor PrintLink worked quite right with it).

Quick notes:

(1) Make sure you use binary mode in the file transfer.
(2) Endianness doesn't matter --- I built the fonts on a 486.
(3) I did this in an earlier version of OzTeX than the current one.  It *is*
    possible that a small buglet managed to creep in along the line....

++Brandon
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