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Re: Problem installing TEX3.0

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From: Arto V. Viitanen
Date: Wed, 26 Sep 1990 07:05
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>>>>> On 24 Sep 90 08:03:41 GMT, napi@rangkom.MY (Mohd Hanafiah b. Abdullah) said:


Mohd> I am having a problem installing TEX3.0.

Mohd> We have a Convex C220 running Convex UNIX 8.1.  When I tried to 'undump'
Mohd> either TeX or LaTeX, I was given "a.out file doesn't have legal magic
Mohd> number".  The 'undump' source code was given with the TeX distribution.
Mohd> %undump tex virtex core
Mohd> %a.out file doesn't have legal magic number

Mohd> I am not sure whether the problem lies with the magic number of 'virtex' or
Mohd> with the 'undump' program itself.

You can check the magic number of virtex by file(1) program  i.e if

	file virtex

tells that virtex is same type as 'file initex', then undump is not either
for Convex or for wrong operating system version.
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Arto V. Viitanen				         email: av@kielo.uta.fi
University Of Tampere,				   	    av@ohdake.cs.uta.fi
Finland
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