Date: Wed, 11 May 1994 09:59:12 -0500
From: Young U Ryu <ryoung AT utdallas DOT edu>
Subject: Re: TEX
To: Simon Chamlian tlf 340-1590 <simon AT tesla DOT ee DOT mcgill DOT ca>
Cc: djgpp AT sun DOT soe DOT clarkson DOT edu



On Tue, 10 May 1994, Simon Chamlian tlf 340-1590 wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> I am trying to TEX the manual of DJGPP and I am getting the following:
> 
> ************************** SCREEN DUMP **********************
> 
> D:\EMTEX>latex libc-a-c.tex                                                     
> This is emTeX, Version 3.0 [3a] (no format preloaded)                           
> **&lplain libc-a-c.tex                                                          
> (d:\emtex\mytex\libc-a-c.tex                                                    
> ILaTeX Version 2.09 <9 Jan 1990>                                                
> LaTeX error.  See LaTeX manual for explanation.                                 
>               Type  H <return>  for immediate help.                             
> ! Missing \begin{document}.                                                     
> \@latexerr ...diate help.}\errmessage {#1}                                      
>                                                                                 
> <to be read again>                                                              
>                    @                                                            
> l.1 @                                                                           
>      c --------------------------------------------------------------...        
> ?                                                                               
> **************************************************************
> 
>                                                                                
> What am I doing wrong? Is there any files missing?
> Note that I got an error message for every single TEX file I tried
> to produce a DVI file.
> 

It is a TeXinfo file. You should *tex* it, not *latex* it, under the
condition that you have texinfo.tex.

Young