Re: [MiKTeX] Compiling Plain TeX source with MikTeX

[P. R. S. <pau...@gm...>]

Gentlemen,
Thanks for your replies.
It was indeed the absence of an `\end' or `\bye'  command that was 
causing the hitch. Believe it or not it was actually tex that 
prompted me to enter a `command' or `\end'. which seemed an odd thing 
to do in the command prompt, but there we are.
I've attached a copy of the dvi output if you'd like to have a look

Cheers
Paul

At 11:08 25/05/2010, you wrote:
>Paul Stanley wrote:
> > Hi folks
> > I have the Windows version of MikTeX 2.8 with all the packages updated to
> > the latest editions.
> > At the moment I'm slowly reading through the Texbook and am currently on
> > chapter 6 which contains examples of plain Tex code.
> > I tried compiling the example below with the command "tex filename.tex"
> > but the output was a .dvi file of size zero.  Moreover, the program didn't
> > end there, presumably awaiting my next command and that's where I stopped.
>
>RTFM, I'm afraid! :o) Page 26 para 2 tells you "TeX will now prompt you with
>`*', because the file did not contain `\end'. Enter \end into the computer
>now, and you should get a file story.dvi"...
>
>
>David
>
>
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