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In <1992Aug13.005246.524@maths.tcd.ie> tim@maths.tcd.ie (Timothy Murphy) writes:

>aix3!wjg@netcom.com (Joey Gibson) writes:

>>Recently in comp.text.tex, someone posted a file containing
>>MetaFont input to produce a font for drawing springs. I took
>>this file, and ran it through MetaFont, giving me a file
>>called ``spring.260''. My question is, what do I do now?

>I wonder was that .260 correct?
>Did you specify the mode (or printer) you were using?
>(See the Metafont book p278-279.)

The "260" looks like the first three characters of "2602" to me. If you
don't tell MF what mode to use, it uses a "proof" mode, which (for good but
obscure reasons) is 2602dpi. If you are stuck with three character filename
extensions, this will presumably be rendered as "260" in the filename.

Sounds like you didn't specify the mode. I would type (on a Unix system)
something like

   mf "\mode=localfont; input spring"

Your MF should have been set up so that "localfont" is a synonym for your
normal local printer.

Jeremy

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