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Re: Latex, slides.sty missing from 7.7E

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Derek Atkins)
Wed Aug 10 18:20:55 1994

To: yandros@MIT.EDU
Cc: bugs@MIT.EDU
In-Reply-To: Your message of Tue, 09 Aug 94 21:36:54 +0500.
             <9408100136.AA03887@infocalypse.MIT.EDU> 
Date: Wed, 10 Aug 94 18:20:41 EDT
From: Derek Atkins <warlord@MIT.EDU>

> No, it means that you didn't read the release notes.  The new [La]TeX
> installation has files split up into subdirectories, (otherwise, the
> directory has more than 300 files!).  You should put a blank path
> element in your $TEXINPUTS file to specify where you want the
> compiled-in defaults to appear; in practice, this means that you want
> to append a slash to your $TEXINPUTS.

BZZT!  Try again, Chad!  I do have this in my TEXINPUTS, and it
still didn't find slides.sty!  Also, I mentioned this to Craig,
and _he_ said to send it in as a bug, since 7.7 and the newtex
locker should behave exactly the same.

-derek

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