It is a well-known problem that there are quite a few TeX versions
are around where -src-specials will cause the equivalent of
\usepackage{indentfirst}, namely causing chapter beginnings and the
like under LaTeX to be indented.
I think that teTeX-beta never had this bug. It was introduced by
David Kastrup wrote:
Are there any specific releases of teTeX-beta and/or TeXlive that one
could recommend as not being afflicted in that particular manner?
Thomas Esser replied:
I think that only the first versions of TeX Live 7 are affected. The
programs identify themself with a
