> I entered latex.tex into the CTAN Catalog search engine but > it did not find this particular file. > Can you be more specific as to where it is is in CTAN? Dig into CTAN home / tex-archive/ obsolete/ macros/ latex209/ distribs where there's a file latex209.tar.gz which, when uncompressed, expands to a little tree of stuff. In there, latex.tex. Alex