Question about installing dvips on ISC-2.2 UNIX

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From: Paul Moore
Date: Tue, 07 Apr 1992 16:51

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I've just begun to learn about TeX. Trivial question I suppose, to the 
cognoscenti. 

I've downloaded dvips and have installed it on my machine. Why is it necessary
to download dvipsafm and dvipslib? Surely, since a TeX document is defined with
reference to the various TeX fonts (cmr, etc) available, why would it be 
necessary to supply dvips with postscript font details? Is it because 
postscript doesn't know about TeX fonts? 

The real reason I ask is because disk storage on my system is limited, and I
would rather not install these fonts, unless it's absolutely necessary.
Assuming that I have them, the fact that nearly all the .afm file names exceed 
14 characters in length causes afmtotfm to fail when I use the Makefile in the 
afm-extra directory. Has anyone else installed these fonts on ISC UNIX? Can I
still use dvips if I don't install them?

Confused, Paul

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