a pictex problem

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From: Julio Kuplinsky
Date: Tue, 20 Mar 1990 22:01

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Can anyone figure out what's wrong with the following code? I get
the error message

! Incomplete \iffalse; all text was ignored after line 6.
<inserted text> 
                \fi 
<to be read again> 
                   \newbox 

********************************************************************

\input pictex
\newif\ifpicmode
\picmodefalse


\ifpicmode 
\beginpicture
\newbox\pica %
  \setbox\pica=\hbox{%
   \beginpicture
    \put {a} at 0 0 
   \endpicture}
\put {\box\pica} at 0 0 
\endpicture
\fi
\bye

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Thanks.
Julio Kuplinsky

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From: kuplinsk@math.rutgers.edu (Julio Kuplinsky)
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Subject: a pictex problem
Keywords: pictex
Message-ID: <Mar.20.17.01.31.1990.26980@math.rutgers.edu>
Date: 20 Mar 90 22:01:42 GMT
Organization: Rutgers Univ., New Brunswick, N.J.
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