Help with font files: trying to do TeX without the TeXBook

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From: Cliff Joslyn
Date: Tue, 08 Aug 1989 20:26

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Alright, I'm getting a bit fed up trying to get TeX going without a
TeXBook.  I've got SBTeX installed on an AT, and have two EGA previewers
by now.  I'm confused by a forest of font files.  One viewer (DVIEW)
only takes .PXL files, and the docs say they're everywhere, but I don't
see them on score.stanford, simtel, or science.utah.edu.  It's
distributed with a few .PXL files, but to run TEX using them I also need
.TFM files!

Or perhaps they're output from MetaFont, which is a whole other system
to learn! I found an executable PXTOPK on score, which hangs my AT when
I try to run it.  The other previewer (DVIVGA) takes .PK, .GF, or .PXL
extensions, but is inferior in design.  It gives no error messages, less
control, and I can't get it to work.  I don't know if it's a font
problem or not.  Arghh!

What do all these extensions mean? Are they described in depth in the
TeXBook? Can I proceed without biting the bullet and purchasing the
thing?
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| Cliff Joslyn, Cybernetician at Large
| Systems Science, SUNY Binghamton, cjoslyn@bingvaxu.cc.binghamton.edu
V All the world is biscuit shaped. . .

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