Re: SLITEX style file problem or simple error?

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From: Darrell McCauley
Date: Fri, 30 Oct 1992 21:22

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In article <18882.2af1412d@ecs.umass.edu>, duggan@ecs.umass.edu writes:
|> Hello,
|> 
|> I am having a NOVICE problem invoking SLITEX and decided that over the weekend

|> This is TeX, Vax/VMS Version 2.0 (no format preloaded)
|> (D$STUDENT2:[DUGGAN]TEST1.TEX;3
|> LaTeX Version 2.09 - Released 18 December 1985
|> (D$STUDENT2:[DUGGAN]SLIDES.STY;5
|> Document Style 'slide' -- released 20 November 1985
|> ) (D$STUDENT2:[DUGGAN]TEST1.AUX;1)
|> ! Undefined control sequence.
|> \@normalsize ->\if@visible
|>                            \twentypt \else \itwentypt \fi
|> \document ...cmds \let \do \noexpand \@normalsize


you are using the wrong format file. Use slitex instead of latex.
 
  virtex &splain test1.tex
instead of
  virtex &lplain test1.tex

[I user really stumped me the other day with this one when I could
 never reproduce his error.]
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From: mccauley@ecn.purdue.edu (Darrell McCauley)
Subject: Re: SLITEX style file problem or simple error?
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