[email protected] wrote: > /home/mccramer>virtex texfile.tex > This is TeXk, Version 3.1415926 (Web2C 7.5.7) > %&-line parsing enabled. > > kpathsea: Running mktexfmt plain.fmt > I can't find the format file `plain.fmt'! > > > /home/mccramer>locate plainfmt.tex
Go to http://www.tug.org/texinfohtml/web2c.html Search for 'plain.fmt'... It seems like this could be solved by making a symbolic link from 'tex.fmt' (as suggested elsewhere). Haven't tried this myself so no guarantees... MfG Peter K

