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Re: tetex and the release

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (andrew m. boardman)
Tue Oct 7 23:37:12 2003

Date: Tue, 7 Oct 2003 23:37:09 -0400
Message-Id: <200310080337.h983b9SU008265@pothole.mit.edu>
From: "andrew m. boardman" <amb@MIT.EDU>
To: amu@alum.MIT.EDU
CC: release-team@MIT.EDU
In-reply-to: <udloewse80e.fsf@multics.mit.edu> (amu@alum.mit.edu)


>Since the package is mainly an interface to some (Metafont) fonts,
>this is not as trivial as simply copying one or two TeX input files in
>place.

Pointing TEXFONTS and TEXINPUTS to the right places got it working for me.
(I'd think MFINPUTS as well, but it wasn't necessary.  I'm not a
hard-core TeX hacker, though.)

>(OTOH, there is a version in newtex, which may be usable with
>a bit of environment tweaking.)

The newtex locker was specifically noted as being deficient.

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