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MIXAL(1)							Mixal user's manual							  MIXAL(1)

NAME
mixal - a load-and-go MIX assembler SYNOPSIS
mixal [ file ... ] DESCRIPTION
Mixal is an implementation of the hypothetical MIX computer and its assembly language called MIXAL. The computer was designed by Donald Knuth for use in his monumental and yet to be finished book series The Art of Computer Programming. All programs and all programming exer- cises in the book are written in the MIXAL language. This implementation is a load-and-go assembler, meaning that you provide it with a MIXAL program source, which it translates into MIX machine code, which it promptly executes by acting as a MIX emulator. You give Mixal zero or more program source files in the command line, which the program interprets. If you give it no arguments, it expects to find a program in the standard input stream. After the program has executed, the final state of the machine registers are printed to the standard output stream. The card punch and line printer devices are connected to the standard input and output stream, respectively. Console input and output are connected to standard input and output, and the disk devices are connected to files named diskN in the current directory, where N is the device number. Those files are created on demand. BUGS
This MIXAL implementation does not do floating-point. The tape devices are not implemented. AUTHOR
This MIXAL implementation was designed and written by Darius Bacon, and then ported to Unixish systems and debugged by Eric S. Raymond. This version includes corrections to multiplication and division by Larry Gately. This manual page was written for Debian by Antti-Juhani Kaijanaho, with changes by Darius Bacon. SEE ALSO
The files /usr/share/doc/mixal/READ.ME and /usr/share/doc/mixal/NOTES.gz contain some information about this MIXAL implementation. Be sure to read /usr/share/doc/mixal/README.Debian, too. A description of the MIX system and the MIXAL language can be found in Donald E. Knuth's book The Art of Computer Programming, Volume 1: Fundamental Algorithms; 3rd Edition (Addison-Wesley 1997). (Or see the home page at http://www-cs-faculty.stan- ford.edu/%7Eknuth/taocp.html.) Debian project 18 May 2003 MIXAL(1)

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MFT(1)                                                        General Commands Manual                                                       MFT(1)

NAME
mft - translate Metafont or MetaPost code to TeX code for prettyprinting SYNOPSIS
mft [OPTIONS] mf_file_name[.mf|.mp] DESCRIPTION
This manual page is not meant to be exhaustive. The complete documentation for this version of TeX can be found in the info file or manual Web2C: A TeX implementation. The mft program creates a TeX file from a Metafont or MetaPost program. It takes appropriate care of typographic details like page layout and the use of indentation, italics, boldface, etc., as illustrated in the book Computer Modern Typefaces. Special conventions in Metafont and MetaPost comments allow you to control things that would not otherwise come out right; section 1 of the MFT source program in the Meta- fontware report explains these rules. The mft program uses an optional change file (which works just as the change files to tangle(1) and weave(1) do) and one or several style files (which are prepended to everything). If no style file is specified, the style file plain.mft for Metafont (or mplain.mft for Meta- Post) is automatically used. The mf_file_name, optional change_file_name, and style_file_name files are searched for using the MFINPUTS (for Metafont) or MPINPUTS (for MetaPost) and MFTINPUTS environment variables if you have set them, or else the corresponding system defaults. The output TeX file name is formed by using .tex in place of the extension of mf_file_name. OPTIONS
-change=change_file_name[.ch] Apply the change file change_file_name to mf_file_name. -metapost Assume mf_file_name is a MetaPost source file (this is the default if mf_file_name has the extension .mp). -style=style_file_name[.mft] Use the style file style_file_name insted of plain.mft (or mplain.mft); this option can be given more than once. FILES
mftmac.tex TeX macros used by mft output. plain.mft, mplain.mft Default style files. cmbase.mft Style file for Computer Modern. SEE ALSO
mf(1), weave(1). Donald E. Knuth, Computer Modern Typefaces (Volume E of Computers and Typesetting), Addison-Wesley, 1986, ISBN 0-201-13446-2. Donald E. Knuth et al., Metafontware. AUTHORS
Donald E. Knuth wrote the program, and he ported it to Unix with the help of Pierre MacKay and the Unix port of weave by Howard Trickey and Pavel Curtis. The program is published in the Metafontware technical report, available from the TeX Users Group. Web2C 2012 14 December 1993 MFT(1)
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