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Re: 8r fonts



> Piet Tutelaers writes:
>  > ...
>  > After all this propaganda for PERL I realise that writing PERL needs to
>  > be learned. That takes time (not that much as in TeX). If you decide to
>  > rewrite fontinst in PERL I am willing to help you with the design.
> 
> If you want to do it, then go ahead, but this porting effort would
> take something like 3 months (fontinst is > 4 years old now) and I
> really don't see a big gain for the effort.
> 
I anyone recodes this into PERL please remember that use of process 
operations does not work that well under DOS/Windows. And that the .bat
file 
is more of a joke compared to UNIX shell-script

Lars Otto