[texhax] Migrating from Windows to Mac

[Reinhard Kotucha]

On 13 December 2009 Tom Backer Johnsen wrote:

 > Gentlepersons:
 > 
 > I am in the process of migrating from Windows XP to a MacBook Pro (Snow 
 > Leopard), and have simply copied a number of files from the Windows XP 
 > machine to the Mac Via an external hard disk and a memory stick. I then 
 > find that files which compile (to PDF) perfectly OK on the Windows 
 > machine give me an error message on the very first line, the 
 > \documentclass one gives me an error message: undefined control 
 > sequence.  On the next line: \documentclass etc.

Did you run tex instead of latex?

Regards,
  Reinhard

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