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#1033

From: Eliot Handelman
Date: Mon, 16 Oct 1989 03:41

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Ok, I decided to move from nroff to LaTeX. I bough Lamport's book. I wrote
this file testit.tex:

\begin{document}
Hi there!
\end{document}

I then typed %latex testit.tex and got the following error log:
----
This is TeX, Version 2.3 for Berkeley UNIX (preloaded format=lplain 88.2.1)  15 OCT 1989 18:48
**testit 
(testit.tex
LaTeX Version 2.09 <15 Sep 1987>
! Undefined control sequence.
\@floatplacement ...global \@toproom \topfraction 
                                                  \@colht \global \@botnum \...

\document ... \hsize \begingroup \@floatplacement 
                                                  \@dblfloatplacement \makea...
l.5 \begin{document}
                    
? x
No pages of output.
---

I don't know what's going on and I wish someone would help me. I'm running
on a vax-8700, if that tells anyone anything. 

Sorry to be so boring, thanks for any help.

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From: eliot@phoenix.Princeton.EDU (Eliot Handelman)
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Subject: LaTeX beginner
Message-ID: <10872@phoenix.Princeton.EDU>
Date: 16 Oct 89 03:41:43 GMT
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Organization: Princeton University, NJ
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