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diff --git a/Build/source/texk/dvipsk/vms/README b/Build/source/texk/dvipsk/vms/README new file mode 100644 index 00000000000..ec89bbc988a --- /dev/null +++ b/Build/source/texk/dvipsk/vms/README @@ -0,0 +1,128 @@ +I backed out some of the changes, but it should compile and run on VMS. +I removed the changes that guarantee that the scratch files get unique +names; I did this because the resulting filenames would not work on +some systems, and because if this is a problem I feel the correct +solution would be to make sure each user is actually running in the +correct unique directory, rather than changing the names of all of the +temporary files that dvips might create. -tgr + +Original message: + +From: "Edward J. Groth" <groth@PUPGG.PRINCETON.EDU> +To: doyle@mmm.lanl.gov, rokicki@CS.Stanford.EDU +CC: groth@PUPGG.PRINCETON.EDU +Message-ID: <009A5364.5D7EC83B.21977@PUPGG.PRINCETON.EDU> +Subject: vms port and mods of hyper dvips 5.58 +Content-Type: text +Content-Length: 155227 +Status: RO + +To: Mark Doyle and Tomas Rokicki + +I've picked up dvips version 5.58 from LANL, with Mark's hps +modifications. I've ported (reported?) this to VMS. Below is a +summary of my changes, followed by a copy of each changed +routine (all changes are annotated with EJG). + +(It looks like whoever was keeping the vms port going hasn't +worked on it for a while.) + +Thanks for the good work! + + - Ed + + + + + +EJG 08-Jul-1996 + +This directory contains dvips 5.58 hacked by Mark Doyle to put in +mods for hyperps and hacked by me to make sure it ports to VMS. + +This was obtained by following links from http://xxx.lanl.gov/hypertex +in early July, 1996. + +Dvips has been made for vms v6.2 (alpha and vax) using DEC C +v5.0. + +Main changes I made: + +****** +dvips.c + +include subdirectory [.vms] where vmscli.c is included. + +get process id and use in constructing file names +dvips_h_pidxxxxx.tmp and dvips_b_pidxxxxx.tmp to replace head.tmp +and body.tmp, so we don't get a name collision if two users are +using the same scratch space. Change all references to these +names to reference the variables holding the new names. + +****** +hps.c + +replace head.tmp and body.tmp as above. + +replace ERROR with ERROR_HPS to avoid collision with error() +function. Question: why us a boolean variable to represent a +constant? + +after the former head.tmp and body.tmp files are copied to the +output, they are deleted. (neatness) + + +****** +output.c + +replace head.tmp and body.tmp as above. Required a little bit of +extra logic when testing to see if the output file is the former +head.tmp (so we don't put in a \n). Don't want to do the test if +the HPS_FLAG hasn't been set. + +****** +dvips.h + +include subdirectory [.vms] where vms.h is included. + +****** +[.vms]vmscli.c + +add qualifiers for new options since this file was last updated. + +fix up some bugs in qualifiers. + +****** +[.vms]dvips.cld + +add qualifiers for new options since this file was last updated. + +fix up some bugs in qualifiers. + +****** +[.vms]dvips.hlp + +add help for new qualifiers added above. + +make help agree with what the qualifiers actually do. For +example, the /filter qualifier, sends the output to stdout, but +still requires an input file (it will not read from stdin). + +****** +[.vms]newmake.com + +Made from [.vms]make.com. Don't prompt for options - all +hardwired as defaults, except fontlib is turned off. HPS is +defined in all cc's, and /standard=vaxc is added to all cc's. + +hps.c is included in the compile and link steps + +options file is removed from the link steps. + +/----------------------------------------------------------------------\ +| Edward J. Groth | Phone: 609-258-4361 Fax: 609-258-6853 | +| Physics Dept., Jadwin Hall | URL: http://pupgg.princeton.edu/~groth/ | +| Princeton University | SPAN/HEPNET: PUPGG::GROTH=44117::GROTH | +| Princeton, NJ 08544 | Internet: groth@pupgg.princeton.edu | +\----------------------------------------------------------------------/ + |