[tex-live] Re: TeX Live-7 source

Sebastian Rahtz sebastian.rahtz@computing-services.oxford.ac.uk
Wed, 31 Jul 2002 21:18:46 +0100


On Tue, Jul 30, 2002 at 10:14:45PM -0700, Walt Burkhard wrote:
> 
> Today, when reading Heiko Oberdiek's proposed upgrade to pdfTeX map
> file manipulation (07/30/02), I decided to look at the source evidently
> in source/TeX/texk/web2c/pdftexdir.  However, I cannot succeed with the
> bunzip2 program on the source.tar.bz2 file

sorry, I cannot reproduce the problem. perhaps the CD pressing
went bad? a "bzip2 -t" on my original gives no errors.

> I would like to read the original mapfile.c; which file is it in 
> within source.tar.bz2?   Second, how can I secure a non-faulty 
> copy of TeX-Live-7?   
you can grab the source.tar.bz2 from any CTAN host. thats
probably the fastest way to proceed. 

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