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From: denise@cwi.nl (Denise L. Draper)
Newsgroups: comp.text
Subject: problem with Common TeX?
Message-ID: <400@sering.cwi.nl>
Date: 20 Jan 88 10:40:18 GMT
Reply-To: denise@cwi.nl
Organization: CWI, Amsterdam
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I don't have Pat Monardo's email address, so I'm posting this
in hope that Pat is out there somewhere, or someone else can
help...

We have Common TeX, Version 2.1, and it doesn't seem to work.
The following input is accepted by TeX Version 2.0, and 
produces correct output, but Common Tex does not accept it, 
and produces the following log file.

This is compiled on a Vax running 4.3BSD, with
CFLAGS	      = -O -DINIT -DBIG	 for initex, and
CFLAGS	      = -O -DBIG	 for virtex.

Any ideas?

input:
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Hello, world
\bye
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log file output:
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This is Common TeX, Version 2.1.1 (preloaded format=plain 88.1.20) 20 JAN 1988 11:09
**foo  
(./foo.tex
Runaway definition?
->
! Forbidden control sequence found while scanning definition of \blort.
<inserted text> 
                }
<to be read again> 
                   \bye 
l.2 \bye
        
? x
No pages of output.
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Denise Draper					 denise@cwi.nl
Centrum voor Wiskunde en Informatica	...!uunet!mcvax!denise