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andreas@dutedib.et.tudelft.nl (A.A.Buykx) writes:

 > I need some help with installing TeXsis. I'm working on 
 > an ordinary HP-UX 8.0 system, and I am trying to install
 > TeXsis as a non-superuser. I made the appropriate changes
 > to the Makefile, (including shifting the SHELL= line upwards,
 > because otherwise I would get an error message running make),
 > and then I tried to run make....

As far as I can tell, the problem is not with TeXsis but with the
INITEX on your system. You might ask your system administrator to
look into this---while you are at it, why not ask *him* to install
TeXsis on the system...

In the meantime, let me suggest a temporary solution. The "installation"
mentioned above mainly produces a format file texsis.fmt for fast loading.
But since you have TeXsis sources, and since TeXsis is Plain compatible,
you don't absolutely need that format file: As long as your Plain TeX
("tex") is working, you can explicitly input TeXsis macros.

The structure of TeXsis makes it very easy to do this (however, you have
to be in the directory where all TeXsis sources are).

Suppose you have a file foo.tex to processed with TeXsis. If you had the
format file, you would have said "texsis foo". Since you don't, explicitly
add the line
			
			\input texsis

at the beginning of foo.tex and then run "tex foo". In principle, it will
be somewhat slower, and it will certainly give you LOTS of messages, but
it *will do the job*. 

For example, you can print the manual this way and get started on
learning and using TeXsis while you/your system administrator figure
out the problem with INITEX.

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