LaTeX question

[Rolf Niepraschk]

Dr. A. D. Snider wrote:

> If this is the inappropriate venue for my question, could you
> please tell me where to redirect it?
> I ran LaTeX on a document (a book manuscript) and received the message
> 
> ! TeX capacity exceeded, sorry [buffer size=3000].
> 1.1
>   %%^^M%% This is file 'amsmath.sty', ^^M%% generated with the docst...
> If you really absolutely need more capacity,
> you can ask a wizard to enlarge me.
> 
> Lamport's book indicates that such messages are usually misleading, but
> since the file runs on my secretary's version of LaTeX, I am inclined to
> believe it this time. How do I enlarge the capacity?

I suppose that your document reads packages (amsmath.sty?) whith wrong 
end-of-line marker. Try to unpack the amslatex package again with

  unzip -a

...Rolf

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