Date: Sat, 18 Dec 1993 11:46:48 -0600 (CST)
From: "Richard Mansfield" <melvin AT math DOT psu DOT edu>
Sender: rxm10 AT psu DOT edu
Reply-To: melvin AT math DOT psu DOT edu
To: djgpp AT sun DOT soe DOT clarkson DOT edu
Subject: virtex in windows

I have run into a peculiar problem trying to run a djgpp compiled
program in windows. Up till now my hard disk has not been large
enough for windows to set up a proper swap file and so I have not
even been able to run hello world. Now everything seems to work, but ...

I used web2c on a sun system to generate the source files for initex
and virtex, made a dos bat file imitating the make file commands used
to compile these programs, edited the header files to accomodate
DOS, took the files home, and compiled them with gcc. I have been
using virtex to run AMS-LaTeX for over a year, no problems.  Now I
try to run it under windows. Everything seems to work but all the
horizontal white space is gone. Titles, page numbers, headings, etc.
are all flushed left and there is no right justification. Everything
else looks right. When I do diff between a correct .log file produced
under DOS and the bad .log file produced with exactly the same command
from windows, I see that the windows run took up around 2000 less words
of memory, produced a file 2K smaller, and has very different numbers
coming after the words "glue set" whatever they mean. It does not make
any difference if I run virtex from an icon or open a DOS window and
use the same alias I run from actual DOS.

I am just joining this list and so have probably missed out on a long
thread discussing this very problem, so please forgive me if I am
bringing up a solve issue.