[3092] in SIPB bug reports
dvips
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (amgreene@Athena.MIT.EDU)
Sun Aug 9 11:39:44 1992
From: amgreene@Athena.MIT.EDU
Date: Sun, 9 Aug 92 11:39:20 -0400
To: jtkohl@cs.berkeley.edu
Cc: jfc@Athena.MIT.EDU, bug-sipb@Athena.MIT.EDU
In-Reply-To: John T Kohl's message of Sat, 8 Aug 92 15:34:02 -0700 <9208082234.AA04059@stinson.CS.Berkeley.EDU>
When I was preparing dvips, I disabled this feature because we were
unable to come up with a satisfatcory solution to the problem of
where to store the fonts.
* The user's homedir was rejected because .gf fioles can be large,
and users are always pushing their quota limits.
* /tmp was rejected because it would not cause the fonts to be saved
on a regular basis. [Now that computrons are faster, this may be
an acceptable option.]
* /mit/texfonts was rejected because we didn't want that filling up
with everyboduy's special needs; and because we were afraid of the
bitbucket effect.
I would love to see MAKETEXPK restored to dvips.
- Rhu
