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I've left my Think-C version of MF and iniMF
in pub/Mac/TeX on ftp.maths.tcd.ie ,
as MF.sit.hqx and iniMF.sit.hqx .
(The latter includes mf.pool .)

This is a vanilla version of MF,
ie I have made as few changes from standard Unix-TeX
as possible (and there were surprisingly few).
The program runs as it would
on a dumb Unix terminal.

I'm offering it because the OzTeX MF requires MPW (I think).
I'm not sure why this is so, as OzTeX itself 
certainly does not require MPW.

The only Mac-kiness I've indulged in
is to look for the TeX environment variables
(MFINPUTS, etc) in a file called "TeX Preferences"
in the standard Mac Preference Folder
(inside the System Folder).
The file TeX.Preferences (loc. cit.) is a sample "TeX Preferences" file.

I've also added a facility to allow several fonts 
to be processed sequentially,
by a command (in Unix language)

MF < batchfile

ie re-directing the Standard Input 
(in the console window) to a file.
I've left a sample batchfile ("MF.batchfile") in pub/Mac/Tex .
(I did this in an earlier version,
but had not realised that MF does not always
close all its files.
Consequently the number of open files built up
until the maximum allowed was reached.
In this version I have ensured that all files are closed
after each font is processed.)

I'll leave the sources
(in the form of diffs from the standard distribution)
in pub/Mac/TeX/src-5.851c .

There is also a MF.README ,
and GFtoPK.sit.hqx .
(I'm not sure if the OzTeX version of this needs MPW,
but the Euro-OzTeX version doesn't run on my Mac --
I think it is looking for a floating-point chip.)

The StyleWriter printer I use is 360dpi.
This means that I can use most of the supplied 300dpi fonts,
by a stroke of luck.
The magstephalf fonts are missing, of course,
and the Euro-OzTeX manual is in 11pt, which needs these.
But it is easy enough to change the 11pt to 12pt,
and run it through LaTeX again.
(It's still in French, though!)

-- 
Timothy Murphy  
e-mail: tim@maths.tcd.ie
tel: +353-1-2842366
s-mail: School of Mathematics, Trinity College, Dublin 2, Ireland