Subject: pdftex archive troubles From: "Thomas G. Lockhart" <lockhart@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Date: Mon, 29 Dec 1997 07:11:13 +0000 |
Hello Norm. Well, I was suprised to see your name as the contact for the CTAN-Web archive. I'm trying to figure out how to get jadetex updated from 0.51 to 0.53 to pursue my sgml/tex table troubles. After some poking around, I found it on the CTAN archives, but the Makefile needs a package called pdftex, which does not seem to be installed on my system (I had gotten everything to get started from a linux rpm which omits some of the building tools). Anyway, I was in luck: pdftex is on CTAN-Web also, as either a tar.gz file or as a .zip file. Well, not so lucky: the pdftex.tar.gz is not recognizable as a tar file, and the pdftex.zip file does not exist. I tried two different mirrors with the same result. Found another file of the same name elsewhere, and it was a recognizable tar file but truncated. Went to .cz to the source and found (apparently) a complete pdftex.tar.gz file (444024 bytes), but have not yet figured out how to install it. configure is not happy because some files are missing (this seems to be an incomplete web2c distribution, whatever that is) and trying to bypass that I notice that the pdftex.ch file sez to use "tie -m..." to do the pdftex installation, but no "tie" on my system. *sigh* Getting closer though... Thought you might want to know about the damaged files on CTAN-Web. - Tom DSSSList info and archive: http://www.mulberrytech.com/dsssl/dssslist
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