[texhax] metatype1

[Walt Burkhard]

Thanks Reinhard,
You and Karl have made useful suggestions.   I am still working through all
of this however.   I'll let everyone know what seems to work on Mac OS X
7.4 when I have finished.

Walt

On Thu, Jun 21, 2012 at 1:35 PM, Reinhard Kotucha
<reinhard.kotucha at web.de>wrote:

> On 2012-06-20 at 15:16:32 -0700, Walt Burkhard wrote:
>
>  > Hi,
>  >
>  > I am trying to setup MetaType1 on my Mac system.  All the MT1
>  > system setup software evidently was created for Microsoft
>  > environments.
>
> Hi Walt,
> many years ago I installed MT1 on Linux.  AFAIR it worked almost
> out-of-the box.  The only thing I had to do was to replace
>
>  CONSOLE="CON"
>
> by
>
>  CONSOLE="/dev/tty"
>
> in the BEGIN section of the awk scripts.  All other files have the
> same time stamp, hence I'm convinced that nothing else had to be
> adapted.  The .bat files were only wrappers for other programs and
> don't do anything serious.  They were not needed on Unix.
>
> Don't know whether it's that simple with newer versions of MT1 too.
> But it's always possible to compile a sample file and see where it
> crashes.
>
> Regards,
>  Reinhard
>
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