X-VM-v5-Data: ([nil nil nil nil nil nil nil nil nil] ["1425" "Tue" "16" "February" "93" "14:23:01" "+0100" "Lutz Birkhahn" "lutz@BISUN.NBG.SUB.ORG" nil "35" "Re: web2c on what platforms" "^Date:" nil nil "2"]) Return-Path: Received: from sc.ZIB-Berlin.DE (mailserv) by dagobert.ZIB-Berlin.DE (4.1/SMI-4.0/1.9.92 ) id AA05281; Wed, 17 Feb 93 08:37:51 +0100 Received: from vm.urz.Uni-Heidelberg.de (vm.hd-net.uni-heidelberg.de) by sc.ZIB-Berlin.DE (4.1/SMI-4.0-sc/19.6.92) id AA22718; Wed, 17 Feb 93 08:37:48 +0100 Message-Id: <9302170737.AA22718@sc.zib-berlin.dbp.de> Received: from DHDURZ1 by vm.urz.Uni-Heidelberg.de (IBM VM SMTP V2R2) with BSMTP id 1061; Wed, 17 Feb 93 08:36:35 CET Received: from DHDURZ1 by DHDURZ1 (Mailer R2.08 R208004) with BSMTP id 6366; Wed, 17 Feb 93 08:36:32 CET Received: from DHDURZ1 by DHDURZ1 (Mailer R2.08 R208004) with BSMTP id 6364; Wed, 17 Feb 93 08:36:31 CET Reply-To: Mailing list for the LaTeX3 project Date: Tue, 16 Feb 93 14:23:01 +0100 From: Lutz Birkhahn Sender: Mailing list for the LaTeX3 project To: Multiple Recipients of Subject: Re: web2c on what platforms Status: R X-Status: X-Keywords: X-UID: 980 Jon asked, > is there anywhere but UNIX that one > can successfully use WEB-2-C to translate tex.web to C, compile it, > and have it pass trip? Just for the records: on the Atari ST/TT I have seen a web2c. Remember: web2c is written in C so it's managable to port it to small machines (so much to the Pascal vs. C discussions). I did not have the time yet to try to translate TeX with it (we already have a TeX in C), but it should be possible, although much more complicated than, say, compiling a program written in CWEB. Frank argues > that on *any* plattform on which TeX runs, there must be a possibility > to handle WEB Ever heard of some crazy people that took "TeX: The Program", typed it in and translated it to C *manually*? (OK, today I would surely use web2c, but at the time we did it, there wasn't one, and the only computer-readable sources we knew of were the tapes from TUG---useless for small computer systems; using a Pascal compiler was no alternative, since there was no cheap, fast or even usable Pascal compiler on the Atari ST at that time, and times have not changed that much.) Lutz -- Lutz Birkhahn (Germany) email: lutz@bisun.nbg.sub.org (don't use another!) F"urther Str. 6 +-------------------------------------------------- D-W-8501 Cadolzburg 2 | "It is an error to not have enough arguments" Voice: 09103 / 2886 | (Hype Programmer's Guide)