[texhax] unpacking/installing xypdf

[Reinhard Kotucha]

On 27 March 2010 Phil Parker wrote:

 > I just got xypdf.zip from CTAN. Here's what happened:
 > 
 > $ latex xypdf.ins
 > This is pdfeTeX, Version 3.141592-1.21a-2.2 (Web2C 7.5.4)
 > entering extended mode
 > (./xypdf.ins
 > LaTeX2e <2003/12/01>
 > Babel <v3.8d> and hyphenation patterns for american, french, german, ngerman,
 > b ahasa, basque, bulgarian, catalan, croatian, czech, danish, dutch,
 > esperanto, e stonian, finnish, greek, icelandic, irish, italian, latin,
 > magyar, norsk, polis h, portuges, romanian, russian, serbian, slovak, slovene,
 > spanish, swedish, tur kish, ukrainian, nohyphenation, loaded.
 > (/usr/share/texmf/tex/latex/base/docstrip.tex
 > Utility: `docstrip' 2.5c <2003/09/18>
 > English documentation    <1999/03/31>
 > 
 > **********************************************************
 > * This program converts documented macro-files into fast *
 > * loadable files by stripping off (nearly) all comments! *
 > **********************************************************
 > 
 > ********************************************************
 > * No Configuration file found, using default settings. *
 > ********************************************************
 > 
 > ))
 > Runaway argument?
 > 3]{\StreamPut ##1{\inLine }}\@ifundefined {\string \reserved at a }{\@check at eq
 > \ET C.
 > ! File ended while scanning use of \@xargdef.
 > <inserted text>
 >                 \par
 > <*> xypdf.ins
 > 
 > ?
 > 
 > 
 > Now what do I do?
 > 
 > I attach xypdf.log in case it is needed.

Works fine here.  Your TeX system is quite old.  In particular, you
have 

  Utility: `docstrip' 2.5c <2003/09/18>

and I have

  Utility: `docstrip' 2.5d <2005/07/29>


Regards,
  Reinhard

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