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From: ken@cs.rochester.edu (Ken Yap)
Newsgroups: comp.text,comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: sb26tex from simtel20
Keywords: does it work for you?
Message-ID: <1989Nov4.173141.28855@cs.rochester.edu>
Date: 4 Nov 89 17:31:41 GMT
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Reply-To: ken@cs.rochester.edu
Organization: University of Rochester Computer Science Department
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Address: Rochester, NY 14627, (716) 275-1448

|I got SB26TEX.ARC from Simtel20 a week ago and have been trying to install
|it ever since.  I have 640K base memory and after clearing my system to
|the bare minimum configuration, I have 600800 bytes of usable space.  For
|some reason, I am unable to build the Plain TeX format still... INITEX
|just dies and gives some error about running out of space with buffer
|1023 or something like that.  Does anyone have a working version and can
|send me the prebuilt formats for plain and latex? Better yet, can you tell me 
|what I am doing wrong.

Your .tex files are not properly terminated with CR-LF as per MSDOS
standard. This causes the input buffer to overflow because TeX finds
the lines too long.  Did you get your files in image mode from a Unix
system or something like that?