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<div dir="ltr"><font face="Tahoma" color="#000000" size="2">To Whom It May Concern,</font></div>
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<div dir="ltr"><font face="Tahoma" color="#000000" size="2"><font face="tahoma">I just installed MiKTEX, WinEdt, Ghostscript and GSView on my new HP laptop using TeX disks that I recieved back in 2005. </font></font></div>
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<div dir="ltr"><font face="Tahoma" color="#000000" size="2"><font face="tahoma">A<font face="tahoma">fter the installation, I</font> successfully opened a .tex document in WinEdt, but when I tried to Texify I got the following message in the DOS window: </font>
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<div dir="ltr"><font face="Tahoma" color="#000000" size="2"><strong>This is e-TeX, Version 3.141592-2.2 (MiKTeX 2.4)<br>
"etex.exe" --ini --interaction=nonstopmode --halt-on-error --alias latex *latex.<br>
ltx \dump<br>
This is e-TeX, Version 3.141592-2.2 (MiKTeX 2.4) (INITEX)<br>
entering extended mode<br>
(C:\texmf\tex\latex\base\latex.ltx (C:\texmf\tex\latex\00miktex\texsys.cfg)<br>
./texsys.aux found</strong></font></div>
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<strong>\@currdir set to: ./.</strong></div>
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<strong>Assuming \openin and \input<br>
have the same search path.</strong></div>
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<strong>Defining UNIX/DOS style filename parser.</strong></div>
<div dir="ltr"><strong>catcodes, registers, compatibility for TeX 2, parameters,</strong></div>
<div dir="ltr"><strong>!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!<br>
! You are attempting to make a LaTeX format from a source file<br>
! That is more than five years old.<br>
!<br>
! If you enter <return> to scroll past this message then the format<br>
! will be built, but please consider obtaining newer source files<br>
! before continuing to build LaTeX.<br>
!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!</strong></div>
<div dir="ltr"><strong>! LaTeX source files more than 5 years old!.<br>
l.540 ...aTeX source files more than 5 years old!}</strong></div>
<div dir="ltr"><strong>No pages of output.<br>
Transcript written on latex.log.<br>
initexmf: etex.exe failed on "latex.ltx".<br>
cannot make latex.efmt<br>
I can't find the default format file!<br>
'\\fschome\msaadi$\M.BarbatoStuff\research\CycleRepPaper 2008'<br>
CMD.EXE was started with the above path as the current directory.<br>
UNC paths are not supported. Defaulting to Windows directory.<br>
Press any key to continue . . .</strong></div>
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<div dir="ltr"><font face="tahoma">I get a similar message (including the last 3 lines) at the end of trying to just "Tex" as opposed to "Texify" it. The resulting pdf or dvi is some distorted version of only the beginning of my document.</font></div>
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</font><font face="tahoma">FYI, I successfully used this software on my old laptop when I installed it the first time back in 2005.
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<div dir="ltr"><font face="tahoma">I would greatly appreciate any information you could give to help me solve the problem.</font></div>
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<div dir="ltr"><font face="tahoma">Thank you for your time.</font></div>
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<div dir="ltr"><font face="tahoma">Mary Ann Barbato</font></div>
<div dir="ltr"><font face="tahoma">Fitchburg State College</font></div>
<div dir="ltr"><font face="tahoma">Mathematics Dept.</font></font></div>
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