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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!news.Hawaii.Edu!ames!decwrl!nic.hookup.net!swrinde!cs.utexas.edu!howland.reston.ans.net!sol.ctr.columbia.edu!news.kei.com!yeshua.marcam.com!zip.eecs.umich.edu!umn.edu!gaia.ucs.orst.edu!news.uoregon.edu!usenet.coe.montana.edu!bsd.coe.montana.edu!root From: root@bsd.coe.montana.edu (Superuser) Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.apps Subject: Re: TeX Makefonts ? Date: 25 Jan 1994 18:55:04 GMT Organization: Montana State University - Bozeman MT Lines: 23 Message-ID: <2i3pu8$1te@pdq.coe.montana.edu> References: <199401250202.VAA23907@freenet.buffalo.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: bsd.coe.montana.edu In article <199401250202.VAA23907@freenet.buffalo.edu>, Christopher L. Mikkelson <ae516@freenet.buffalo.edu> wrote: >I recently got TeX running on FreeBSD 1.0, and it works fine, but any >dvi previewers I use spend most of their time parsing(?) the fonts. I >seem to remember some magical command that would build them all, so dvixxx >wouldn't have to. What was that command? There is no such command that I'm aware of. The problem lies in the fact that you don't know ahead of time which fonts you will need for your particular setup, so for the first few weeks (months), you will end up building a alot of fonts. Once you get past the first dozen or so papers you should only have to build fonts rarely. >P.S. Not really a problem, but a really wierd thing: A friend and I both >loaded FreeBSD 1.0R from the same CD, but on bootup, my system says >"FreeBSD 1.0e" and his says "FreeBSD 1.0.2" even though neither of us has >upgraded (or downgraded). HUH?? Are you *sure* that you didn't use a kernel from different distribution? Did you use the same kernel on both machines? Nate