phh@veeble.han.de (Philip H. Hullmann) (03/11/91)
Hello world :-) I just got a copy of Graham Toal's implementation of TeX, which included CommonTeX (suitable for my A310). After copying all 12 disks onto my hard drive I tried to run it, but all I got was the error message "Abort on data transfer at &000516F8". Now: What did I do the wrong way? Did I miss something obvious? BTW: Does anybody out there have a working printer driver for an Epson compatible 24-pin printer (I've got the sources, but no C-compiler :-() Thanks for your help, Philipp.
bdb@cl.cam.ac.uk (Brian Brunswick) (03/12/91)
In article <1991Mar11.151438.21793@veeble.han.de> phh@veeble.han.de writes: >Hello world :-) > >I just got a copy of Graham Toal's implementation of TeX, which included >CommonTeX (suitable for my A310). >After copying all 12 disks onto my hard drive I tried to run it, but all I got >was the error message "Abort on data transfer at &000516F8". I think this is due to running the large memory version instead of the 310 version - go into the !Run file anc change it where indicated. Brian.Brunswick@uk.ac.cam.cl Disclaimer. Short sig rules!
strgx@warwick.ac.uk (W S Kendall) (03/14/91)
On installing Graham Toal's implementation of TeX: I tried to do this for my A440 and also got error messages like "Abort on data transfer at &000516F8". Graham kindly sent me a disk with a cut-down demo version, and inspection of that revealed what I had done wrong (being a naive tyro I must have got the de-arcing procedure wrong, missed out some !Run files or something). The good news is, this demo is now available on info-server@newcastle as "armatures". The bad news is it is only checked out for a 4Mbyte RAM A4xx, as I don't have an A3xx (;-)). Try to get hold of armatures, make THAT work, then copy across the rest of the info from your 12 floppies ... A useable alternative to a 24-pin printer driver is to dump pages from !Preview as drawfiles, then print them off. You have to be careful to get page alignment correct. Tedious but effective. You can even resize to get 2-sides-to-a-page landscape printing! It would be totally wonderful if someone were to write a filter receiving a list of such drawfiles and using a script to do x- and y-shifts, scale reductions, ... , pumping out new drawfiles. (a) useful, (b) removes most of the tedium of above para. I can't afford the PRM, so I can't get the information to do it myself :-(). Hope this helps. Persevere - ArMaTuReS is a super piece of software! Wilfrid Kendall