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[Aryeh M. Weiss]

In article <1990Jul20.201046.26621 at hoss.unl.edu> jaffe at hoss.unl.edu (David Jaffe) writes:
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>Does anyone have explicit instructions for installing TeX under Xenix?
>I have the files on my machine, but I can't get the make file to run.
>
>David Jaffe (jaffe at hoss.unl.edu)
>Department of Mathematics and Statistics
>University of Nebraska, Lincoln

I assume you have or can get the web2c distribution.  This comes in two 
pieces.  One is web2c itself and the other is the tex.web source.
I picked up both pieces via anonymous ftp from ics.uci.edu (128.195.1.1)
in /TeX.  The files are called web-5.0b.tar.Z and web2c-5.0c.tar.Z.
(These are unpacked by saying `zcat web-5.0b.tar.Z | tar xvf -' and
 `zcat web2c-5.0c.tar.Z | tar xvf -'.)

After unpacking you have directory web2c.  Read all the `readme's
and `install's.  Edit the Makefile and site.h files to your taste (look
at the default search path directories in site.h).  
	Use `CC=gcc -traditional -m80387' in the Makefile 
	if you have gcc otherwise CC=cc.
You will also have to edit the file web/Makefile instructions on
how to make tangle.p (Xenix does not like the shell "until ..." syntax
used).  It should read simply:

tangle.p: tangle.web tangle.ch
	$(CC) $(CFLAGS) -o tangle tangleboot.c tanglext.c
	tangle tangle.web tangle.ch

You should now be able to type make.
It will only take an hour or two, but everything should compile cleanly.
(I do `make |& tee make.out' so I can see it work and save the results.)

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Okay, now you have initex and virtex (in web2c/tex).  What now?  Well,
this is a fine mess.  You now need plain.tex, hyphen.tex, and a complete 
set of *.tfm files and *.pk font files and dvi2whatever programs!
Let's assume you have all this (some of which is available from 
labrea.stanford.edu (36.8.0.47) in /pub/tex/lib,* (you have to look)).  

Move, copy, or link the plain.tex and hyphen.tex files to the TEXINPUTS
directory, the *.tfm files to the TEXFONTS directory, and the tex.pool 
file to the TEXPOOL directory as defined in site.h (remember site.h?, ...).  
	Run `initex plain' this creates plain.fmt.
Move, copy, or link plain.fmt to the TEXFORMATS directory.
Link virtex to tex in your /usr/bin or /usr/local/bin.
	Now run `tex' on a suitable .tex file.
You now have a .dvi file which must to translated via a dvi2XXX program
to print on your favorite XXX printer.

This should get you started.  As Bob Dylan once said,
``Gooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooood luuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuck.''
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