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Article #373ditroff / dwb / pic patches available?
From: Ira Chayut
Date: Thu, 17 Jan 1991 01:05
Date: Thu, 17 Jan 1991 01:05
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This is being posted for a friend without direct USENET access, please
respond directly to him. Thanks. (Sorry for this being posted a second
time, the first only had local distribution.)
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I have a copy of a program called "mkfont" (posted to the net at some time
in the past by Duane H. Hesser, dhh@teltone.com) which duplicates the
action of the AT&T DWB "makedev" program (useful because the default action
in DWB is to not install makedev, and as a result, some binary-only DWB
installations don't have a makedev).
In the README file for this program, there is the following note:
>If you use these to produce Postscript font files, be aware of the
>standard ditroff limit of 10 fonts (enforced by core dump). I believe
>patches to fix this and other bugs are in the USENET archives
>somewhere. For those of you with Pyramids, RTOC can send you a
>version which will handle up to 25 files; otherwise you'll have to
>pick and chose. NOTE: mkfont will compile them fine (as will
>makedev), but ditroff won't like 'em.
I have poked through the listing of files available on UUNET, and through a
recent comp.sources.unix index, and don't find any reference to such a
package of fixes. If such fixes are indeed available, legal, and someone
knows of their whereabouts - or better yet, has them and can send them to
me - I would be most appreciative.
Oh - and while we're at it, if anyone has patches to pic, that would be
helpful as well. Trying to get this working reliably on a client's
machine, with what appears to be DWB 2.0. The version string in pic is
1.10, in {n,t}roff 2.13.
Since I have not been able to arrange news access in my current incarnation
as a consultant, please reply by mail at the address below. (Alternatively,
alruna is in the maps, so if you have a working mail router with pathalias
it should be able to find me). Naturally, if there is a flood of requests,
(but why would there be?), I'll try to get out a followup...
Thanks,
Mats Wichmann
UNIX / X Windows Consultant
uunet!unisoft!alruna!mats
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rutgers!apple!spies!zorch!ira From: ira@zorch.SF-Bay.ORG (Ira Chayut) Newsgroups: comp.text.desktop Subject: ditroff / dwb / pic patches available? Keywords: mkfont,Postscript,DWB Message-ID: <1991Jan17.010541.6884@zorch.SF-Bay.ORG> Date: 17 Jan 91 01:05:41 GMT Distribution: na Organization: SF-Bay Public-Access Unix Lines: 42