verbatim issues

[Walter Burkhard]

Hello,
I am trying to use the verbatim scheme proposed by David Salomon in his
book  The Advanced TeXbook on pages 179 & 180.   Unfortunately I am not
getting it to work.

I have attached two files --   verbatim
which is the scheme and the file "example"  which is also from his
book on page 178.

These two files are attached below --  Executing tex on the example
file creates the error message  "Use of gobble doesn't match its
definition."

What is going on here?   Many thanks in advance.

Walt Burkhard
-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: <https://tug.org/pipermail/texhax/attachments/20240704/c9a5f6a6/attachment.htm>
-------------- next part --------------
A non-text attachment was scrubbed...
Name: verbatim
Type: application/octet-stream
Size: 2062 bytes
Desc: not available
URL: <https://tug.org/pipermail/texhax/attachments/20240704/c9a5f6a6/attachment.obj>
-------------- next part --------------
A non-text attachment was scrubbed...
Name: example
Type: application/octet-stream
Size: 194 bytes
Desc: not available
URL: <https://tug.org/pipermail/texhax/attachments/20240704/c9a5f6a6/attachment-0001.obj>