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From: gnast@unix.cis.pitt.edu (Gianaldo N Antonelli)
Newsgroups: comp.text.tex
Subject: need help with sbtex
Summary: is the plain format file faulty?
Message-ID: <25642@unix.cis.pitt.edu>
Date: 4 Jul 90 03:51:23 GMT
Reply-To: gnast@unix.cis.pitt.edu (Aldo Antonelli)
Organization: Univ. of Pittsburgh, Dept. of Philosophy
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Hi there.

I've been using TeX on the mainframe for a few months now,
and I decided that it would be nice to a copy running on my
PC as well. So I ftp'ed sb30tex.zip from SIMTEL, unzipped,
installed it, and run initex, all this following (I think)
the directions of the .doc file.

But when I try to run TeX I get the following error message:

         (fatal format file error; I'm stymied)

which, I gather, signifies a format file for a different version
of sbtex. So I checked, but the plain.tex file indicates version
3.0, i.e. the same as the program I'm running. Could anybody help?
I would greatly appreciate it. (I hope I've provided enough
information, if not, e-mail me.)

SInce we're at it, one more question: does anybody have any
pointers to a dvi driver for the IBM Proprinter? (Quality is
obviously not a concern here: I would use for drafts.)

Thanks a lot.

                 -- Aldo


Aldo Antonelli
Univ. of Pittsburgh --- Philosophy
gnast@unix.cis.pitt.edu
aldo@vms.cis.pitt.edu