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Article #1472Re: dvi files and printer drivers
From: Tor Lillqvist
Date: Thu, 22 Mar 1990 08:38
Date: Thu, 22 Mar 1990 08:38
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In article <5259@jarthur.Claremont.EDU> dhosek@jarthur.Claremont.EDU (---) writes: >Another thing which can happen (I just remembered this now) is that on one >system (I forget which) DVI files and other TeX binaries have their length >encoded into them at the beginning (NAUGHTY NAUGHTY NAUGHTY), which can >cause problems. This may be on the Data General, but I forget. I used this method when I ported TeX to the HP1000 some six years ago. It has a really braindead file system, and this was a trick I considered necessary. Of course, the HP1000 port is very obsolete by now. (I must admit that the Pascal/1000 compiler did compile TeX without problems, you can't say the same of many Unix Pascal compilers.) -- Tor Lillqvist, working, but not speaking, for the Technical Research Centre of Finland
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!samsung!think!snorkelwacker!bloom-beacon!eru!luth!sunic!tut!santra!hemuli.tik.vtt.fi!tml From: tml@hemuli.tik.vtt.fi (Tor Lillqvist) Newsgroups: comp.text.tex Subject: Re: dvi files and printer drivers Keywords: dvi Message-ID: <4610@hemuli.tik.vtt.fi> Date: 22 Mar 90 08:38:00 GMT References: <7457@latcs1.oz.au> <5224@jarthur.Claremont.EDU> <7294@hydra.gatech.EDU> <5259@jarthur.Claremont.EDU> Organization: Technical Research Centre of Finland, Laboratory for Information Processing (VTT/TIK) Lines: 15