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Date: Mon, 31 Aug 1998 17:30:55 -0700
From: Nate Eldredge <nate AT cartsys DOT com>
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To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>
CC: George Foot <george DOT foot AT merton DOT oxford DOT ac DOT uk>, djgpp-workers AT delorie DOT com
Subject: Re: Patch to mkdoc and re: portability information
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Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> 
> On Thu, 27 Aug 1998, Nate Eldredge wrote:
> 
> > Which reminds me-- seems to me I once tried to TeX libc.txi and it
> > failed miserably.  Has anyone done this successfully?
> 
> I will try this sometime in the near future, but only on v2.02 (the
> docs in v2.01 has too many problems that would fail TeX).  I have a
> new version of TeX ported to DJGPP which waits to be tested, and
> typesetting large documents is the best way.
> 
> BTW, how exactly did it ``fail miserably''?  Did it crash (shouldn't
> happen) or just spit out a lot of error messages (expected)?

Just error messages.  It was teTeX for Linux, anyway, so it would be
their bug if it did.  I think it was 2.01 anyway, so that explains a lot
as well.

> Did you remember to DTOU the .txi files first?

Not sure-- it was quite a while ago.  Testing 2.02 might be a good idea
though-- I will try it when I have time.
-- 

Nate Eldredge
nate AT cartsys DOT com