Help with METAFONT

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From: Benjamin R. Zaborowsky
Date: Thu, 03 Sep 1992 02:28

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I have the METAFONT book and have looked in the faq, but still am confused
about how to create the necessary font files for TeX to use.
All I seem to get is the ffff.2602gf file.  How do I generate the other
fontname.nnnpk, fontname.pk, and fontname.tfm files that are needed?
Can someone point me to a document, article, or book that takes a
metafont beginner by the hand and leads them through the mechanics.
I'm using mf on VMS and DOS.
Thanks,
Ben Zaborowsky              benz@lilly.com
Eli Lilly and Company             or
Indianapolis, IN 46285     benz@ncsa.uiuc.edu

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