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Some notes on installing dvips 5.4 on MS-DOS using Turbo C 2.0.
by Russell Lang  <rjl@monu1.cc.monash.edu.au>  20th November 1990.

These notes are not by Tomas Rokicki.  
Tomas Rokicki does not use MS-DOS ( smart person :-) and so will be 
unable to answer questions about MS-DOS problems.

This set of MSDOS files for dvips contains:
README.pc     This file.
makefile.tc   Makefile for Turbo C.
linkopt.tc    Link options for Turbo C linker.
config.ps     config.ps modified for MSDOS
maketexp.bat  Batch file to make tex pk files.

If you have the Unix tar file, the steps involved in making 
dvips on a PC are:
-  On Unix, in the dvips directory, give the following commands:
      make texc.lpro
      nroff -man dvips.1 > pc/dvips.doc
      nroff -man afm2tfm.1 > pc/afm2tfm.doc
-  Copy dvips/* and dvips/pc/* directories to the PC.
-  copy PStfms/*.tfm to C:\EMTEX\TFM on the PC 
   (then optionally delete pst*.tfm, rpst*.tfm, pop*.tfm rpop*.tfm,
    pad*.tfm rpad*.tfm)
-  copy PSvfs/*.vf to C:\TEXFONTS\VF on the PC
   (then optionally delete pst*.vf, pop*.vf, pad*.vf)
-  edit dvipsmac.tex and replace the line
      \generictrue
   with
      %\generictrue
-  edit paths and directories in pc/makefile.tc and pc/config.ps.
-  edit pc/linkopt.tc for the location of your library files.
-  'make -fpc/makefile.tc'.
-  if that works, try 'make -fpc/makefile.tc install'
-  change to another directory (to avoid using the Unix config.ps)
   and then try to run dvips!

If you have MS-DOS ZIP files, they will contain a compiled version of dvips.  

To install this in the emTeX directories on drive C:, use 
        pkunzip -d -o dvips* c:\

The MSDOS version of dvips differs from the description in
dvips.1 in the following ways:
- path separators are ';' not ':'
- directory separators are '\' not '/'
- The user's initialization file is "dvips.ini" not ".dvipsrc".
- pipes to printers not supported.  Output must go to a file.
- MakeTeXPk is a batch file.  Since MSDOS has insufficient memory
  to run both dvips and Metafont at the same time, this batch file
  will typically write out a set of commands for running Metafont
  later.  The maketexp.bat supplied writes out an mfjob file for emTeX.
- limited emTeX specials.  The following ones are supported:
  \special{em:message xxx}
  \special{em:point n}
  \special{em:line a[h|v|p],b[h|v|p] [,width]}
  \special{em:linewidth width}
  \special{em:moveto}
  \special{em:lineto}
  The \special{em:graph xxx} is not supported.  The line cut parameters
  [h|v|p] of the \special{em:line ...} command are ignored.  Lines are
  ended with a rounded cap.
  A maximum of 1613 different point numbers are permitted on each page.

See the config.ps file for other changes.

If you want to use a different directory arrangement, modify the
paths in config.ps.  If you want to store config.ps or psfonts.map
in a different place, either recompile dvips or use the environment
variable TEXCONFIG.

The program dvips can use emTeX font libraries created with the 
fontlib /2 option.  PXL fonts within font libraries will be ignored.
A maximum of 12 font libraries may be used, due to Turbo C limits.

Turbo C gives a large number of 'possible incorrect assignment'
warnings.