Hi, I saw your message regarding the missing fmt files under slink. I too faced the same problem last week and it took me a day or two to relaize that this was the y2k problem. I have a slow connection and downloading the new updates is a problem. I got around the problem in this way.
1. Logged in as root. 2. Changed the date with the date command. Set the year to some 199x. 3. Ran texconfig. I had all the fmt files in /var/lib/texmf/web2c. HTH, sridhar --------------------------------------------------------------- Sridhar M.A. Powered by: University of Mysore, Manasagangotri Debian GNU/Linux 2.1 Mysore 570 006, INDIA
