From: davin_pearson AT yahoo DOT com
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Subject: TeX teething troubles...
Date: Mon, 10 Jan 2000 01:20:26 GMT
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I am trying to install TeX on my Windows 95
computer at home and am running into some
troubles getting the font creation to work.

Here is the output of dvips:

This is dvips(k) 5.78 Copyright 1998 Radical Eye Software
(www.radicaleye.com)
' TeX output 2000.01.09:2048' -> PRN
kpathsea: Running mktexpk --mfmode ljfour --bdpi 600 --mag 1+0/600 --dpi
600 cmr10
running mf: No such file or directory (ENOENT)
mktexpk: Mismatched mode ljfour and resolution 600; ignoring mode.
This is METAFONT, Version 2.718 (Web2C 7.2)
I can't find the base file `MF.base'!
mktexpk: warning: can't open log file cmr10.log.
mktexpk: `mf "\mode:=ljfour; mag:=1+0/600; nonstopmode; input cmr10"'
failed.
mktexpk: Running mf "\mode:=ljfour; mag:=1+0/600; nonstopmode; input
cmr10"
kpathsea: Appending font creation commands to missfont.log.
C:/DJGPP/BIN/dvips.exe: Font cmr10 not found, characters will be left
blank.
C:/DJGPP/BIN/dvips.exe: ! couldn't open PostScript file

########## output ends!

The LaTeX'ing worked fine without any errors.  I tried
my test file at my university UNIX system where LaTeX is
also installed and it compiled and dvips'ed without any
problems suggesting that the problem is with my DJGPP TeX
installation not working properly.

I have had a few teething troubles with DJGPP programs in the
past, and I have taken the trouble of downloading the LATEST
files tmflib75.zip, webc72b.zip and dvps578b.zip and dvga09b.zip
from ftp.cdrom.com.

Also I have scrutinised the file TeX.README that is written by
Eli Zaretskii for the exact steps that I should have taken,
after which I am at a loss to explain why the "dvips" nor
"dvivga" are not working.  Actually dvivga does work, but it
shows boxes instead of the letters of the font, indicating that
"dvivga" suffers from the same font-creation failure as "dvips".

The TeX.README file makes no mention of the file "MF.base" that
is mentioned in the output from dvips.

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The file that I used in the test was like so:

################ FILE "test.tex" BEGINS

\documentclass{article}

\begin{document}

The cat sat on the mat.

\end{document}

################ FILE ENDS


I am installing TeX on behalf of someone else as well so
help would be much appreciated!


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