From owner-freebsd-ports Fri Apr 7 10:38:05 1995 Return-Path: ports-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) id KAA12584 for ports-outgoing; Fri, 7 Apr 1995 10:38:05 -0700 Received: from kbrown.oldcampus.yale.edu (root@kbrown.oldcampus.yale.edu [130.132.128.124]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) with SMTP id KAA12569 for ; Fri, 7 Apr 1995 10:38:02 -0700 Date: Fri, 7 Apr 1995 13:37:22 -0400 (EDT) From: -Vince- To: Satoshi Asami/=?ISO-2022-JP?B?GyRCQHUbKEI=?= =?ISO-2022-JP?B?GyRCOCsbKEIgGyRCOC0bKEI=?= cc: freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: /etc/printcap for Deskjet 500 and gs In-Reply-To: <199504071552.IAA25547@silvia.HIP.Berkeley.EDU> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: ports-owner@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Fri, 7 Apr 1995, Satoshi Asami/=?ISO-2022-JP?B?GyRCQHUbKEI=?= =?ISO-2022-JP?B?GyRCOCsbKEIgGyRCOC0bKEI=?= wrote: > * From: Brian Tao > > * 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...) > > Yeah, that's right....my guess is that what they need is just metafont > but since metafont is typically included in a TeX distribution, the > doc just says it needs TeX. > > Satoshi > Actually, both you and Brian are right on this one.... It's Metafont that's the problem that won't run in the background properly. Cheers, Vince -*vince@kbrown.oldcampus.yale.edu*- UCLA Physics/Electrical Engineering