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Re: Macintosh port of Lout (sort of)
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bbennett |
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Re: Macintosh port of Lout (sort of) |
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Sat, 16 Mar 1996 16:52:27 -0800 |
'Way back on 24 Nov 1995 address@hidden (Tom Gordon) wrote:
>
>Due to the problem with calling "sort", and a lack of time, I still
>haven't finished porting Lout to the Macintosh OS.
>
>But .... I have found another way to use Lout on the Mac. Have you
>heard of MachTen? It is a Unix implementation which runs as a Macintosh
>program, on top of Mac OS.
>
<snip>
>
>I was able to compile and install Lout with no significant changes to
>the makefile. It seems to work just fine.
>
>A "real" Mac port of Lout would still be nice for those who do not
>want or need a Unix environment, or want to pay several hundred dollars
>for MachTen just to use Lout.
It compiles and runs in MacMiNT, the freeware unix workalike which runs as
an ordinary Mac app concurrently with others (as I gather MachTen does).
One can use the freestanding ghostscript port Mac GS Viewer to view the
PostScript files.
Because a genuinely free lunch is rare at the Mac diner, there are a few
hitches. Because MacMiNT itself is a bit of a memory hog, well over 8 MB of
physical RAM is evidently needed to run through the User Guide
(loutdoc/user). And lamentably loutdoc/expert/all can't be run through at
all -- Lout quits randomly toward the end of the first pass with the
message
internal error: rename(ch[n].ldx, ch[n].ld) failed
MacMiNT's notorious blocking fork(), which can cause a pipe to overflow
even when unpacking a .shar file, may be the reason.
But -- for documents of modest size and complexity it seems just fine. Lout
is particularly handy on the Mac since a PostScript printer is so commonly
plugged in.
MacMinT stuff is at:
<ftp://suniams1.statistik.tu-muenchen.de/incoming/MacMiNT/>
<ftp://archive.cis.ohio-state.edu/pub/mac-unix/macmint/>
<http://ucsu.colorado.edu/~mittonk/macmint/Home.html>
--Bruce Bennett
address@hidden
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