[2412] in Athena Bugs
Re: TeX (6.2A vax)
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Robert S. French)
Mon Jun 19 12:35:06 1989
Date: Mon, 19 Jun 89 12:34:31 -0400
From: "Robert S. French" <rfrench@ATHENA.MIT.EDU>
To: <jfc@ATHENA.MIT.EDU>
Cc: bugs@ATHENA.MIT.EDU, bug-sipb@ATHENA.MIT.EDU, bmd@ATHENA.MIT.EDU
In-Reply-To: <jfc@ATHENA.MIT.EDU>'s message of Sun, 18 Jun 89 22:28:48 -0400
This is a manifestation of the _same bug_ that I reported when 6.2A
first went out to staff test. This bug still exists in 6.3A. Sample
run follows. It is unacceptable for this bug to continue in future
releases. If you can't fix it, take the binaries out. Right now it
is screwing people over who want to use the SIPB version if they have
/usr/athena in their path before /mit/sipb/foobin.
Rob
<rfrench at kaz> {/mit/rfrench}
13% /usr/athena/latex
This is TeX, C Version 2.93 (no format preloaded)
(preloaded format=lplain 89.1.25)
**\relax
LaTeX Version 2.09 <4 Aug 1988>
*\documentstyle[11pt]{article}
(/usr/athena/lib/tex/macros/article.sty
Document Style `article' <16 Mar 88>.
(/usr/athena/lib/tex/macros/art11.sty)
! Missing number, treated as zero.
<to be read again>
{
\alloc@ ...1\global #3#5=\allocationnumber \wlog {
\string #5=\string #2\the ...
\@definecounter ...ewcount \csname c@#1\endcsname
\setcounter {#1}0 \expanda...
<argument> ...finable \else \@definecounter {part}
\fi \fi
\@ifundefined ...fx \csname #1\endcsname \relax #2
\else #3\fi
\newcounter ...#1\endcsname {\@definecounter {#1}}
\@ifnextchar [{\@newctr {#...
l.61 \newcounter{part}
? x
No pages of output.
From: <jfc@ATHENA.MIT.EDU>
Date: Sun, 18 Jun 89 22:28:48 -0400
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A user in olc reported the following:
>This is sort of a LaTeX bug report. If you guys aren't supporting this
>stuff yet then don't worry about it. It seems that the letter style isn't
>quite working. TeX is having a problem with the \newdimen and \newcount
>commands. I ran sipb's version of LaTeX and the document came out fine, but
>then again they are using macros from a different directory. I have a feeling
>that the letter macros are screwing something up and it's not a really a
>problem with Athena's TeX. I did TeX the documentation for the letter style
>and that's of the article style. Anyway, if I'm doing something wrong pleas
>tell me. If there's an official place for this `bug-report' then could you
>forward this or point me to it? Thanx.
