TeX on a Sun running 3.0

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From: David Melman
Date: Fri, 06 Jun 1986 17:30

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I had TeX up and running on Sun Unix 2.2.

I upgraded to 3.0 and recompiled without problems.

However, I am unable to dump the .fmt file with initex.
This is what happens:
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% initex
This is TeX, Version 2.0 for Berkeley UNIX (INITEX)
** plain \dump
(/usr/lib/tex/macros/plain.tex 

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and it hangs ... forever. 'ps' does say it is running.

The old 2.2 initex binary still works. It produces all the verbage:
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% initex_2.2
** plain \dump
(/usr/lib/tex/macros/plain.tex  Preloading the plain format: codes, registers, parameters, fonts, ... etc
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But we do want to use the 3.0 version so it maintains compatibility with 
Sun-3's.

Has something changed under Sun 3.0 to screw initex up?

thanks,

David Melman
System Development Corp.
Santa  Monica Ca.  

213-820-4111 Ext:5367

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Subject: TeX on a Sun running 3.0
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Date: Fri, 6-Jun-86 13:30:37 EDT
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