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Date: Fri, 7 Apr 1995 13:10:25 -0400 (EDT)
From: -Vince- <vince@kbrown.oldcampus.yale.edu>
To: Brian Tao <taob@gate.sinica.edu.tw>
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Subject: Re: /etc/printcap for Deskjet 500 and gs
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On Fri, 7 Apr 1995, Brian Tao wrote:

> On Fri, 7 Apr 1995, -Vince- wrote:
> > 
> > 	Yep, because dvips needs TeX to create the required fonts I 
> > think...
> 
>     I thought dvips just needed Metafont and the MakeTeXPK script to
> generate the bitmaps?  TeX is just a macro processor ("just", ha!)
> that calls MetaFont to retrieve font metrics and the like.  That's my
> understanding of it, after trying to rebuild the latest kpathsea'd
> versions of TeX/LaTex2e/dvipsk/xdvik under FreeBSD (what a nightmare
> that was...)
> -- 
> Brian ("Though this be madness, yet there is method in't") Tao
> taob@gate.sinica.edu.tw <-- work ........ play --> taob@io.org
> 
> 

	Actually, you are right.  It does need Metafont and the MakeTeXPK 
script to generate the bitmaps...  I guess the one in the TeX port won't 
run in the background properly....

Cheers,
Vince -*vince@kbrown.oldcampus.yale.edu*-
UCLA Physics/Electrical Engineering