[Fontinst] eTeX and fontinst -- incompatible?

[Walter Schmidt]

Hi!

it seems not to be possible to process fontinst scripts using 
eTeX.  A simple script such as

%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% snip %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%
\input fontinst.sty
\installfonts
\installfamily{T1}{phv}{}
\transformfont{phvr8r}{\reencodefont{8r}{\fromafm{phvr8a}}}
\installfont{phvr8t}{phvr8r,latin}{t1}{T1}{phv}{m}{n}{}
\endinstallfonts
\bye
%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% snap %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%

fails, apparently during the \installfont command:

  ! Missing number, treated as zero.
  <to be read again> 
                     \i-rawscale 
  \setscaledrawglyph ...unt =\int {rawscale}
                                            \multiply \a_count \e_count...
  l.24 ...r8r}{10pt}{1000}{32}{278}{0}{0}{0}

This happens with both VTeX and MikTeX. (I have no teTeX 
available here.)   Is this a bug or a feature, or did I 
make any mistake?

Walter