Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!mcvax!ukc!warwick!inmos!des
From: des@inmos.co.uk (David Shepherd)
Newsgroups: comp.text
Subject: Re: Problem running SLiTeX in PCTeX 2.1
Message-ID: <825@brwa.inmos.co.uk>
Date: 17 Feb 89 10:29:36 GMT
References: <113600004@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu>
Reply-To: des@inmos.co.uk (David Shepherd)
Organization: INMOS Limited, Bristol, UK.
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In article <113600004@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu> gsg0384@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu writes:
>What's wrong with my copy of PCTeX 2.1.  I tried to run slitex
>
>PCTEX\MYDIR>latex my_root
             ^^^^^
>Then I got error message which seems to be caused by an error in 'slides.sty'
>file.  This file is the one distributed by PCTeX 2.1.

The problem is that you're running LaTeX and not SliTeX -- try

	slitex my_root

or

	tex &splain my_root


If you don't have splain.fmt you'll have to rebuild it with INITeX.

david shepherd
INMOS ltd.