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Re: EMTEX question: how to use DVIDRV with DVIPS ??

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From: hank
Date: Thu, 29 Oct 1992 00:11
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In article <rjl.720310210@fawlty10.eng.monash.edu.au>, rjl@fawlty10.eng.monash.edu.au (Russell Lang) writes:
>>dvips will generate fonts. It uses maketexp.bat (or .cmd) on PCs. Why use
>>dvidrv?  
> 
> Once you have it set up, it is more convenient.
> 
> maketexp.bat creates an mfjob file which you must process later.
> 'dvidrv dvips' will make the missing fonts immediately and then rerun dvips.

Well, I guess I use a real operating system. maketexp is a batch file. The
last line in my copy calls mfjob. This works fine if you have enough free
memory. No problems under OS/2 1.x--2.0.

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--Darrel Hankerson hank@ducvax.auburn.edu
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