Upgrading the package fixed the problem. Thanks to Jim Osborn for suggesting
the solution.
On Saturday 30 June 2001 11:23, you wrote:
> "Christopher M. Jones" wrote:
> > I just switched to a new Linux distro (Debian 2.2r3 from Mandrake
> > 6.something). Somehow, the \columnbreak command that worked before now
> > works no longer (i.e., documents that were written under the old distro
> > don't work under the new distro). I have returned to the documentation
> > for multicols,
>
> are you sure, that you have the same multicol version?
>
> Package: multicol 2000/07/10 v1.5z multicolumn formatting (FMi)
>
> this version works here.
>
> Herbert
