From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Jan 8 14:03:42 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id OAA12750 for questions-outgoing; Mon, 8 Jan 1996 14:03:42 -0800 (PST) Received: from fieber-john.campusview.indiana.edu (Fieber-John.campusview.indiana.edu [149.159.1.34]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id OAA12745 for ; Mon, 8 Jan 1996 14:03:38 -0800 (PST) Received: (from jfieber@localhost) by fieber-john.campusview.indiana.edu (8.6.12/8.6.12) id RAA00653; Mon, 8 Jan 1996 17:03:30 -0500 Date: Mon, 8 Jan 1996 17:03:27 -0500 (EST) From: John Fieber X-Sender: jfieber@fieber-john.campusview.indiana.edu To: "Paul T. Root" cc: "David E. O'Brien" , questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: creating handbook In-Reply-To: <9601081922.AA00916@kermit.acs.uswest.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk On Mon, 8 Jan 1996, Paul T. Root wrote: > In a previous message, David E. O'Brien said: > > > > > > Ok, I took the handbook down to my FreeBSD machine, used /stand/sysinstall > > > to install tex-3.1415 and latex-2.09 and this is what I get: ^^^^ I believe you have to hand edit the \documentstyle line to remove an extraneous comma (,) for it to work with 2.09. It (should) work fine with 2e but I have not tested it in a while. > > > > This is TeX, Version 3.1415 (C version 6.1) > > > > (Fatal format file error; I'm stymied) But this is unrelated. It means that tex either cannot find the format file, or the file is corrupted somehow. I'm not familiar with the package layout of TeX so I cannot tell you precicely where they should be. (I'm still running the TeX I built on 386BSD+patchkit, before the birth of NetBSD and FreeBSD.) -john == jfieber@indiana.edu =========================================== == http://fieber-john.campusview.indiana.edu/~jfieber ============