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This is a README file for SONY NEWS installation of TeX at HST.

					Yukio Ikadai
					(ikadai@{hst,sra}.junet)

					Hirata Software Technology Co., Ltd.
					6-1-45 Toroku,
					Kumamoto, 862 Japan

The follwoing points are noted when TeX and METAFONT was installed on
SONY NEWS-830 at HST.

1. tex82/TeXware/dvitype

	`-O' option (optimize) to `pc' command (Pascal compiler) seems
	to cause some trouble when `dvitype' is compiled.
	When compiled Without `-O' option, `dvitype' seems to work well.
	To make `dvitype' without `-O' opton to pc, use:

		% make PFLAGS='-J -w' dvitype


2. mf84
  (a) machine type `NEWS'
	Supported machines were VAX4_2, VAX4_3, SUN_V2 and PYRAMID.
	We added `NEWS', changed `configure' accordingly and created
	Makefile templates.

	mf84/configure
	mf84/MFconfig/mf84/Makefile.NEWS
	mf84/MFconfig/mflib/Makefile.NEWS
	mf84/MFconfig/mfutils/Makefile.NEWS

	(NOTE)
	`mf84/default_config' has the default values used at our site.

  (b) using X-Windows as a graphical means for METAFONT
	The following files are changed/added to utilize graphical capabilities
	of X-Windows.

	mf84/MFlib/mf_windows.c:	(CHANGED)
	mf84/MFlib/mf_xwin.c:	(NEW)

	Makefile for mf84/MFlib (its template is:
		 mf84/MFconfig/mfutils/Makefile.NEWS
	reflects this.

3. a device driver for CANON LBP8-AJ2

	tex82/TeXdevices/lbp8aj2/dvi-lbp8aj2/*

	contains DVI driver for CANON LBP8-AJ2. This driver can read so-called
	PK font file. It first tries to read PK font file, then PXL font file
	if PK font file is not found.
	It is not fully tested, but It produced the documentation for `weave'
	and `dvitype'.
	It prints 4 to 5 pages a minute after initial font loading time of
	30 seconds to 2 minutes.

	Changes from the previous version of this driver.

	(1) PK format is supported.
	(2) Font loading scheme has been changed. We believe that this scheme
	   causes longer initial font loading time, but afer then, it prints
	   faster.
	(3) As default, it now SPOOL the output to `lpr' spooler.
	   Without `-P<printer>' option, It checks environment variable
	   `PRINTER' and uses the value if it is defined.
	   When `-P<printer>' option is not given and environment variable
	   PRINTER is not defined, the driver uses `-Plbp'.
	   `-s' option suppresses the spooling and the output is directed to
	   standard output.

	   Note that this driver converts DVI file to printing codes of the
	   printer BEFORE spooling. Therefore, some filter to dump files
	   literally to the printer is needed. We are using `if' filter
	   (input filter) which supports `-l' option of `lpr' command.
	   If your site does not support `-l' option, use the

		tex82/TeXdevies/lbp8aj2/4.2BSDspooler/lbpfcat.c

	   as some filter, for exmaple, 'gf' filter.
	   Define the macro `SPOOL_FILTER' in the Makefile there
	   to be the name of option of `lpr' command to use. I
	   If this macro is not defined, `-l' is assumed.

4. xdvi -- DVI previewer on X-Window

		./tex82/TeXdevices/xdvi/*

	`xdvi' included in X-WIndow Version 10, Release 3 has some trouble
	on NEWS. `xdvi' assumed LittleEndian byte order(Byte-Swap Problem).

	The following modifications have made:
	(1) Fixing Byte-Swap Problem
	(2) Reading PK format font file.
	(3) Thin rules were missing on the display when displayed with
	    shrinking factor greater than 1.