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From: jackson@replicant.csci.unt.edu (Bruce Jackson)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: problems w/ XDVI on FreeBSD
Date: 17 Oct 1995 21:01:24 GMT
Organization: University of North Texas, Denton
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Message-ID: <4615j4$3o6@hermes.acs.unt.edu>
References: <460vtp$k8k@macro.stanford.edu>
NNTP-Posting-Host: replicant.csci.unt.edu
In article <460vtp$k8k@macro.stanford.edu>,
Mystical White Wolf <fchang@macro.stanford.edu> wrote:
> Hi, I ftp-ed the xdvi, TeX, and LaTeX packages from FTP.FREEBSD.ORG
> for FreeBSD v2.0.5. When I tried to xdvi a file, I got the
> following message about checksum errors and character not defined
> messages which I will include at the end of this message.
I haven't tried the tex distribution from packages so I can't be
sure what exactly the problem was but from the error messages
a lot of the tex fonts seem to be bad or missing. If all of
the executables are ok and only the fonts are messed up you
could reinstall the fonts with those from a CTAN host. The ones
I know of are:
Host Internet address TeX root dir
---- ---------------- ------------
ftp.shsu.edu 192.92.115.10 tex-archive
ftp.tex.ac.uk 134.151.44.19 tex-archive
ftp.dante.de 128.69.1.12 tex-archive
The file with the fonts and macros is:
tex-archive/systems/web2c/lib.tar.gz
You might find yourself wanting to just rebuild TeX from scratch. TeX
isn't difficult to built but it is time consuming. The instructions
to build it can be found in the file:
ftp://ftp.cs.umb.edu/pub/tex/unixtex.ftp
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