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Re: Note on Common TeX and METAFONT

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From: Dr. Peter Kuo
Date: Sat, 30 Jan 1988 19:16
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In article <22696@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU>, monardo@renoir.Berkeley.EDU (Pat Monardo) writes:
> My C language METAFONT is currently working very nicely.
> I plan on enjoying it for a while before submitting it to
> the fine scrutiny but it appears to pass the trap test.
> As soon as I have a machine readable version of the trap.log,
> I will make it pass the test. In the meantine, it now correctly
> compiles all of Computer Modern. I dont know about distribution,
> but if you would like to beta test it, I may put it on a vax
> somewhere for ftp access. Now that METFONT is finished I will also
> clean up Common TeX to Version 2.9 very soon.
> 
> [... deleted ...]
>
> 	^\pat


Pat, how about some of us poor folks with no FTP access??? Is there an easy
way for me to get a copy of your Common TeX (exe and source) as well? I have
seen a number of other questions similar to mine on TeX-hack... much thanks
in advance!

Peter/
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