rhealey@digibd.com (Rob Healey) (05/08/91)
If anybody cares, I was able to get TeX 3.0, MetaFont, ELM 2.3PL11 and xdviPL11 to work on Amix 1.1. The BIG surprise was that xdvi compiled right up without even a warning message! The only problem is the #$%^$# OL xterm refuses to give up focus to xdvi when run under twm, I HATE olwm... Both cc and gcc didn't like some of the prototyping that TeX used. Specifically, tangleboot.c and all the declarations of sprintf in the variouse src trees. tex, latex, bibtex and metafont all appear to work fine. I also got a dvi to 9 pin Epson program to work. Now I can compose, preview and print on my Amiga under Amix! ELM required alot of manual futtsing with the config.sh file. I used the /usr/public/src/cmd/elm/config.sh as a start. Took a few iterations but after an hour I finally had a properly working ELM. If anybody wants the gory details on any of the "porting" of the packages, send me email and I'll give the details. Next project: X11R4 clients and librarys. I'm hoping to set it up as a generic 4.3BSD setup. Hopefully the Berkeley emulation libs will be close enough. Alternatly, I'll follow the sage advice that amatures borrow, masters STEAL and use the X386 patches from Herr Roell as a starting point. The package works slick on the 386 boxes at work so hopefully after some byte sex tweeks it'll work on Amix. Obviously the 386 Server will be useless but the clients and libs should work. After all, R4 is R4 right?! B^). -Rob -- Rob Healey rhealey@digibd.com Digi International (DigiBoard) Eden Prairie, MN (612) 943-9020