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I am having a problem making the cm fonts compile (render?) on my
machine.  I am using an Amiga 1000 with 1.5 meg ram.

Metafonts seems to be running fine.  I picked up the Metafonts book at
the bookstore, and the IO test program works just dandy. (whoever
chose the colors for the interlace screen is a genius; no flicker at
all!)

Anyway, the problem is this: metafonts hits the statement

 square_dots:=false;

and jams with the message:  illegal operation: numeric boolean.

I tried using inimf to recompile the base file.  This included the
files: plain.mf local.mf (white_setup.mf) cm.mf (cmbase.mf).  And
still the cmr10.mf file killed at that point.  (after several warnings
mf "Emergency stop"'s on me.)

The vax mainframe from which I pulled the .mf files compiles the cmr10
just fine so: 
1. is the Amiga version pickier about type conversion?
2. am I missing a .mf file in my plain.base which would type declare
the flags that the current?
3. is there a bug in the Amiga version to be fixed?

Thanks for advice in advance.  Sorry about the crosspost, but here is
definitely a case where the question falls equally into two domains.

					-henning
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