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From: mani@headcrash.Berkeley.EDU (Mani Varadarajan)
Newsgroups: comp.text.tex
Subject: sbTeX gives unrecognized character error
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Date: 12 Jul 90 06:32:50 GMT
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Hi, TeXperts, let me try this again. I believe the
last time I posted an article with the same title, I 
didn't give enough information; unfortunately, I also
couldn't cancel the article.

I have done

\catcode`^^A=0

And the source file "tiru.tex" has lines looking like 
this:

{\btam  2 a...}

(Don't worry about \btam; it's just a macro for a font.)
I hope the ^A's show up in the line of TeX above. Now,
even though i've catcoded ^A to 0, sbTeX29 gives me the
following error message:

This is TeX, Version 2.991(c)sb29 (no format preloaded)
(tiru.tex (tamilmax.tex)
! Text line contains an invalid character.
l.2 {{\btam ^^?
               maa^^?...
?

Is this a bug? This file TeX's fine on UNIX C TeX v. 2.995.
Or do I need to do something? I'm working on a XT Turbo 8mhz
clone, and I haven't had the slightest problem with sbTeX
before.

Please email to mani@sybase.com or post a reply. Thanks!

Mani Varadarajan
mani@sybase.com
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