Date: Tue, 8 Apr 1997 14:23:58 +0300 (IDT)
From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>
To: Robert Hoehne <robert DOT hoehne AT mathematik DOT tu-chemnitz DOT de>
cc: djgpp-workers AT delorie DOT com
Subject: Re: Looking for DJGPP port of TeX
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On Tue, 8 Apr 1997, Robert Hoehne wrote:

> No I don't, but I would (if I had the time and the resources)
> try to build TeX from the sources using web2c and see if
> it works. (but the sources are realy big)

That's what I will try to do if I don't hear from anybody else.

> Since we have bash and many other unix tools ported
> to DJGPP I think it should be possible to uses the
> configure script there.

Running configure is a lot, but not everything.  I need to go through the 
program sources looking for things that break on MSDOS (such as the 
assumption that all absolute filenames begin with a '/', or that `read' 
always returns the same value as the size returned by `stat') and fix 
them.  The larger the program and the less I'm familiar with its 
internals, the harder this part is.

Anyway, thanks for replying.