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From: bogstad@HOPKINS-EECS-BRAVO.ARPA ("William J. Bogstad")
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Subject: [kahn:  Re: Ditroff, CDS laser printer, TeX, & modems]
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From: seismo!mcvax!inria!kahn@ucb-vax.berkeley.edu (Gilles Kahn)
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To: cbosgd!hopkins-eecs-bravo.arpa!bogstad
Subject: Re: Ditroff, CDS laser printer, TeX, & modems
References: <8510291839.AA02563@ucbvax>

We have ported TeX on the ridge with the new pascal compiler (rp).
This was a fairly difficult task because we uncovered 4 major "bugs"
in the rp compiler, that prevented porting TeX1.3 from being a
straightforward
business. If you are interested in more details, send
me a message (...mcvax!inria!kahn) , that could shorten substantially your
work.
						Gilles Kahn

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