Re: changing default paper format in miktex 2.8

Am Tue, 26 Jul 2011 02:49:47 -0700 schrieb Nicolae Garleanu:

> >> ! LaTeX source files more than 5 years old!.
> >> l.545 ...aTeX source files more than 5 years old!}

>> Hm. miktex 2.8. was released 2 years ago and it hasn't reached
>> its end-of-life yet and you can update packages. I do find it
>> quite curious that latex.ltx should be to old. Open latex.ltx
>> and check somewhere at the begin the
>> "\edef\fmtversion{.....}"-line. If the date is not five years
>> old check your PC settings.

> Thank you, Ulrike. The line in question writes 
> 
> \edef\fmtversion{2005/12/01}
 
> i.e., more than 5 years old. What's the best way out? (Can I just
> edit this date? I'd be surprised. Perhaps I can update this file
> somehow?)

Well you could edit the date but it would be a bad hack. Why is the 
file so old? In one of my 2.8-installation latex.ltx if from 
september 2009. Can't you run the update manager of your miktex?

-- 
Ulrike Fischer 


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