Date: Tue, 11 Apr 95 00:16:44 +0100 From: jmz@cabri.obs-besancon.fr (Jean-Marc Zucconi) To: vince@kbrown.oldcampus.yale.edu Cc: asami@cs.berkeley.edu, paul@isl.cf.ac.uk, ports@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: apsfilter Message-ID: <9504102316.AA17232@cabri.obs-besancon.fr> In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.3.91.950410170956.4390B-100000@kbrown.oldcampus.yale.edu> (message from -Vince- on Mon, 10 Apr 1995 17:12:46 -0400 (EDT))
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>>>>> "-Vince-" == -Vince- <vince@kbrown.oldcampus.yale.edu> writes:
> On Mon, 10 Apr 1995, Satoshi Asami | =?ISO-2022-JP?B?GyRCQHUbKEI=?= =?ISO-2022-JP?B?GyRCOCsbKEIgGyRCOC0bKEI=?= wrote:
>> * I seriously doubt it. I'm working my way through 1600 mail messages here
>> * so I've missed what this is about... apsfilter??
>>
>> Yes, apsfilter.
>>
>> * What's the problem you're seeing with the FreeBSD port of TeX?
>>
>> Vince can answer this, but I remember him saying mf not running
>> properly in the background or something....
>>
> Yep, dvips can't run mf properly in the background and I have
> logs to prove it :-)
And I prove here that there is no problem :-}
$ cat >a.tex
\magnification=1600
Hello
\bye
^D
$ tex a
This is TeX, Version 3.1415 (C version 6.1)
(a.tex [1] )
Output written on a.dvi (1 page, 212 bytes).
Transcript written on a.log.
$ dvips -o a.ps a.dvi >dvips.log 2>&1 &
[1] 9679
$ ps -x |grep [m][f]
9692 p1 R 0:11.67 mf \\mode:=imagen; mag:=1+180/300;scrollmode; input c
$
[1]+ Done dvips -o a.ps a.dvi >dvips.log 2>&1
$ tail -3 dvips.log
'METAFONT output 1995.04.11:0010'
19672 bytes packed to 8604 bytes.
<tex.pro>. [1]
Jean-Marc.
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