Date: Sun, 30 Aug 1998 17:02:06 +0300 (IDT)
From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>
To: Nate Eldredge <nate AT cartsys DOT com>
cc: George Foot <george DOT foot AT merton DOT oxford DOT ac DOT uk>, djgpp-workers AT delorie DOT com
Subject: Re: Patch to mkdoc and re: portability information
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On Thu, 27 Aug 1998, Nate Eldredge wrote:

> Which reminds me-- seems to me I once tried to TeX libc.txi and it
> failed miserably.  Has anyone done this successfully?

I will try this sometime in the near future, but only on v2.02 (the
docs in v2.01 has too many problems that would fail TeX).  I have a
new version of TeX ported to DJGPP which waits to be tested, and
typesetting large documents is the best way.

BTW, how exactly did it ``fail miserably''?  Did it crash (shouldn't
happen) or just spit out a lot of error messages (expected)?

> It could easily
> have been a bad installation on my part, missing fonts or such (it was
> on a Unix box, and I don't use TeX much).

Missing font is not a good reason for failures.  Usually TeX generates 
missing fonts on-the-fly.

Did you remember to DTOU the .txi files first?