Of course, something always can go wrong. And usually something does go wrong. As you are not a robot, you make mistakes just as much as I do. Programs react to something like this usually quite unsubtly and terminate their work.
TEX reacts to errors with extensive error messages, that are at first very confusing. To explain these here would be too laborious. Please look up the appropriate pages in a book; The books described in the next chapter contain enough information for servicing errors.
Important for the search for errors is, that you must make sure that you have made or set all important assigns, paths and environment variables. Please check in case of an error everything very carefully. Really inspecting everything on your machine, and not only briefly making a mental note, makes the difference, whether you really have done something or not. A call of dir or assign is often very instructive.
Who has apparently unconquerable problems, can always turn to Georg Heßmann. However, for this, following rules must be respected:
Send us a letter (do not phone, that usually gets you nowhere), in which you clearly explain the problem. Print out a listing of the text, which causes the error to occur, give us a printout of your harddisk directory, make a printout of all settings of the environment variables. If possible, send us a disk with the text, which causes the errors to occur.
And very important: Without a sufficiently stamped envelope, addresses to you, we cannot send you an answer, and will not do it either. This is not malice, but financially necessary. We are students with very low earnings and can only distribute this software for manufacturing costs if we do not suffer a loss at it.
Here the addresses:
Home address:
Georg Heßmann Oberer Markt 7 8712 Volkach Germany
Study address:
Georg Heßmann Ingling 17 4784 Schardenberg Austria
E-Mail:
hessmann@unipas.fmi.uni-passau.de