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Saving as ISO-8859-1 failed. So I recreated "clean" files via copy and paste. Now it works again. Thank you.

Try only typing pdflatex . You should get a prompt starting with ** . You can then inserted the \catcode ... \input ... stuff. However, IMHO you should first try saving the file again with correct encodings like I did. If that doesn't help you can still try this way.

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Thank you. That ...

This does not work ...

mari@spixxi ~ $ cd /run/media/mari/Lexar/eCommerce
mari@spixxi /run/media/mari/Lexar/eCommerce $ pdflatex \catcode 239=9 \catcode 187=9 \catcode 191=9 \input folien
This is pdfTeX, Version 3.1415926-2.4-1.40.13 (TeX Live 2012)
restricted \write18 enabled.
entering extended ...

I am trying to compile a LaTeX beamer presentation to PDF under Winefish/TeXLive/pdfLaTeX (Gentoo Linux 64bit). However it always states " LaTeX Error: Missing \begin{document}." when I try to compile the files folien.tex or handout.tex. This problem did not occur with WinEdt/MiKTeX/pdfTeX (Win7 Pro ...