Re: Know anything about the tetex distributed with the Cygwin toolkit?

[Thomas Esser]

> work with laTeX files. I succesfully build dvi from tex, but
> when I try to use the latex command, the error is "I can't find
> the format file 'latex.fmt'".  And, sure enough, the teTeX from
> Cygwin has no latex.fmt file (mikTeX does).

I have never tried the cygwin port myself, but you should run
  fmtutil --byfmt latex
and see if the latex format file is generated ot if there is an error
message.

Thomas