Subject:	Re: gcc graphics
To:	melvin AT math DOT psu DOT edu (Richard Mansfield)
Date:	Tue, 3 Nov 92 0:35:55 EST
From:	Stephen Turnbull <turnbull AT ecolan DOT sbs DOT ohio-state DOT edu>
Cc:	djgpp AT sun DOT soe DOT clarkson DOT edu (DJ's GPP mailing list)

> Has anyone successfully compiled TeX using gcc on the PC. I used web2c

Yes.  The Japanese have, several times.  These things are known as
UGOTeX, ASCII Nihongo TeX for GO32, and NTT Nihongo TeX for GO32.  All
of them have pure English TeXs with them; I don't use them since I
have yet to find an English file that the Japanese-oriented TeXs mung.
I dunno if the annotations and source changes are readable, let alone
intelligible.  I'll translate, if you want; I bill at $250/hr :-)  
I've never had any takers :->  I do know that the changes from ASCII 
and NTT Nihongo TeXs for Unix to the PC versions are extensive;
however these may have a lot to do with dealing with the various
incompatible-at-all-levels sushi-flavored approximately 90% clones the
Japanese have lots of still.
    Where to get this stuff is extremely geography-dependent.  Some of
my favorite archives cannot be reached at all from Chicago I am told.
Talk to archie; look for JLaTeX, JTeX (with that capitalization), and
tex-for-GO32 (with various capitalizations).

> to make all the C source files and made a file of the Unix commands
> issued by make, took them home to my PC, edited as many system dependent
> #define's as I could find and compiled it. The compile seemed to go ok
> with no error messages and initex almost seemed to work, but it could
> not read any of my .tfm files (bad file messages, not missing files).

All of the Japanese versions are inter-incompatible w.r.t. .tfm files.
They don't say "bad", though, they say "wrong format, please tangle
again".

> It created a format file, but virtex cannot read the format file. (Again,

Dunno about this, but see above.

> the message is "cannot read" not missing or bad). It looks to me like
> there is a possibility that the input routines in TeX have some anti-PC
> code. When I try initex on an actual TeX file with \input plain as its
> first line, everything seems to work except that there are no fonts and
> so every letter puts a error message into the log file.

That's what you'd expect from TeXs that can't even RTFM >:->  Sorry;
it's late.
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Stephen Turnbull
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