Re[6]: Gamma support in TeXExec?

[Giuseppe Bilotta <gip.bilotta@iol.it>]

Friday, October 25, 2002 Olaf Weber wrote:

>> Are there Omega implementations for DOS?

OW> Last time I checked, it compiled successfully using djgpp.  Actually,
OW> Eli Zaretskii spent a lot of time making the web2c stuff configure and
OW> compile cleanly under djgpp.  While some of the supporting files have
OW> not been updated recently, getting it to compile again should be
OW> comparatively easy.

OW> It simply truncates extensions to three characters.

In this case these such implementations could "system-dependently"
change the format extension (instead of truncating, removing the
"m", for example).

>> I mean, I think we should stop worrying about this. If an DOS
>> implementation is indeed done, they can change it with no big
>> problems.

OW> IIRC, ISO CDOM format also privileges .3 filenames; look at the
OW> various compatibility levels.

Hm. I'm starting to think that Hans Hagen idea to put each format
under a separate subfolder of the \fmt directory is not that bad
... could be pass the suggestion on to the TDS committee?

-- 
Giuseppe "Oblomov" Bilotta