Problem with TexLive 4
Sebastian Rahtz
sebastian.rahtz@computing-services.oxford.ac.uk
Sun, 20 Jun 1999 11:19:40 +0100 (BST)
Malysiak writes:
> latex <filename>
>
> from a dos prompt. Latex starts but stops with the message
>
> This is TeX, Version 3.14159 (Web2c 7.3)
> I can't find the format file `latex.fmt'!
>
This problem comes up under Windows 95, but not NT, which is why
it was not spotted earlier. The remedy is posted on
http://www.tug.org/texlive/bugs.html; you have to
set TEXMFCNF=d:\texmf\web2c
set TEXMFMAIN=d:\texmf
(assuming your CD is drive D:); and then "latex foo" will work. You
can of course put these lines in your autoexec.bat.
Sorry about this. We should have caught this before the CD was released.
Sebastian