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Re: METAFONT V1.0 on a SUN

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From: & Wright
Date: Thu, 24 Jul 1986 18:40
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In article <106@uplherc.UUCP> jr@uplherc.UUCP (J.R. Westmoreland) writes:
>I have the tape from the University of Washington dated Feb of Mar.  The tape
>contains TeX and MetaFont.  I tried to compile and run MetaFont and got the message
>"Subrange or array subscript is out of range".  Does anyone have mf84 running?
>Did you have to fix anything and what was the fix?
>
>J.R. Westmoreland
>Utah Power And Light Company
>Phone: (801) 535-4784

In the directory mf84/config are subdirectories that contain template
Makefiles.  The ones for the SUN need to have either the -J flag or
the -O flag deleted (I can't remember which).  After you fix the
template Makefiles rerun the config shell script.
	rusty c. wright
	rusty@weyl.berkeley.edu
	ucbvax!weyl!rusty
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Subject: Re: METAFONT V1.0 on a SUN
Message-ID: <14989@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU>
Date: Thu, 24-Jul-86 14:40:27 EDT
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Posted: Thu Jul 24 14:40:27 1986
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Keywords: TeX, MetaFont, mf84, SUN