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g8231233@cc.uow.edu.au (Andrew Warner) writes:
 > Secondly I have a problem with TeXsis.
 > It will (or it appears to) make itself alright but when it is run it can't
 > find the texsis.fmt file even when it is in the directory that texsis make
 > stuff put it in in the first place.
 > Andrew Warner
 > warner@sci.uow.edu.au

You don't give enough information to diagnose the problem but something 
in the following may help you. Please note that (i) a format file is not 
automatically loaded just because it happens to be around, (ii) "make"
only does what you ask it to in Makefile... So, a few things could be off.

First, is the command "texsis" recognized? (I assume so, but this is the
first thing to check.) If not, where have you kept it? Is that directory
specified in the "path" variable in your .cshrc?

Second, is "texsis" a link pointing to VIRTEX? (Go to the directory where
"texsis" is kept and run "ls -l texsis". For example I get:

   yukawa% ls -l texsis
   lrwxrwxrwx   1 trivedi  21 Jul  5 23:51 texsis -> /usr/local/bin/virtex* 
                                                )
If so, then whenever you run VIRTEX (via the link "texsis") it will look 
for the format file texsis.fmt in the directories specified by the variable
TEXFORMATS. Therefore,

Third, what does your TEXFORMATS variable contain? Run "echo $TEXFORMATS"
and see what is specified there. For example, I get

   yukawa% echo $TEXFORMATS
   .:/home/trivedi/Tex/formats:/uns/lib/tex/formats:/usr/local/lib/tex/formats

   This tells VIRTEX to first look in "." (the current directory),
   failing that in /home/trivedi/Tex/formats (my own .fmt files),
   failing that in /uns/lib/tex/formats (some "unsupported" FTP'd stuff),
   and finally in /usr/local/lib/tex/formats (the official system stuff)

If you continue to experience problems, after an honest effort :-),
feel free to contact me via e-mail. The official contact address for
TeXsis is texsis@lifshitz.ph.utexas.edu; you can contact them too.

Good luck!

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