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From: Achim Gratz <Stromeko@nexgo.de>
To: cygwin@cygwin.com
Subject: Re: latex error: latex.fmt doesn't match pdftex.pool
Date: Tue, 17 Jul 2012 19:54:00 -0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87pq7uw4dw.fsf@Rainer.invalid> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <5005B39B.502@ucar.edu>

Keith Lindsay writes:
> When I attempt to run latex on a simple .tex file (attached), I get
> the following error message:
>
> $ latex polynom.tex
> This is pdfTeX, Version 3.1415926-2.4-1.40.13 (TeX Live 2012/Cygwin)
>  restricted \write18 enabled.
> ---! /var/lib/texmf/web2c/pdftex/latex.fmt doesn't match pdftex.pool
> (Fatal format file error; I'm stymied)

My crystal ball tells me that most likely pdftex.exe is no longer a link
to latex.exe...


Regards,
Achim.
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      parent reply	other threads:[~2012-07-17 19:54 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-07-17 18:49 Keith Lindsay
2012-07-17 19:05 ` Ken Brown
2012-07-17 19:50 ` Keith Lindsay
2012-07-17 19:54 ` Achim Gratz [this message]

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