🚀 go-pugleaf

I now have about 3 copies of TeX that I have gotten to compile under
my Xenix 386 compiler (including most of the Usenet posted TeX for
Xenix 286).  Unfortunately none have come with installation instructions
and most have strange enough code that the installation is not 
necessarily so obvious.

For example, with the TeX286 version, I end up with executables called
initex, virtex and TeXtrip.  I gather from the TeX Book that initex is
supposed to change plain.tex to plain.fmt so that I can actually do 
something.  Could anyone tell me just what I am supposed to say to do
this?  (NB.  my copy of plain.tex came from another source, which I
couldn't get to work either!)  Is TeX supposed to automatically search
for fonts if the exact match is not there, or is this an implementation
depended feature.

I continue working through the TeX book, but page 23 refers me to
my "friendly local computer hackers" (that's what Knuth says) and
that is about where I get effectively stuck.  Thanks in advance.

BTW, I am not an archive site, but I have managed to lay my hands on the
following which I am willing to put into a uucp spool to you [i.e. I call
you] if anyone wants it:

     1. perl to patch level 18.
     2. patch to patch level 12.
     3. pcomm11 to patch level 6.
     4. wanderer2, conquer, tesseract, warp7 and adventure games.
     5. smail 2.5 + patches to make it work under Xenix.

I think that I have everything working except pcomm11.

I am physically moving residences and cannot offer to let you call me
at this point.  Sorry.  If there is a UUCP-able ontario.archives 
set up then I will try to make these available there.