est bet is to get the tar file, unpack it, and try again, because
    your abortive attempt will probably have stomped on a C file that
    you need.   
<p>
   I have reports that the former  CTAN site <tt>ftp.shsu.edu</tt>
fouled the timestamps.  Don't use the site!
If you get bad timestamps, 
   you can try 
    `make touch' as soon as you unpack the distribution, which should
    touch all of the derived files.  This trick won't work on NeXT
    systems, which have a strange idea of 'touch'.

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