Re: interface language

[Siep Kroonenberg <Siep.Kroonenberg@wkap.nl>]

Hans Hagen writes:
 > Siep Kroonenberg wrote:
 > > 
 > > How is the following possible:
 > > 
 > > %======================================================
 > > This is pdfTeX, Version 3.14159-0.12h (Web2C 7.2)
 > > (Fatal format file error; I'm stymied)
 > 
 > Either you changed he memory settings (texmf file), or the pdftex binary
 > was updated, the pools file changed. Looks like a rather old pdftex
 > version. FMT files are not compatible (just compressed memory dumps). 
 > 
 > Hans

Apparently, I was not sufficiently clear. The fatal format error is
simply that the format file isn't there, and the unsolved problem is
that texexec looks for this particular format file at all rather than
for cont-en.fmt. texexec.ini specifies an english interface and I
didn't use command-line options to contradict that.

With the sample files this problem didn't occur, and I can run Context
manually just fine.

As to the date of pdftex: am I right in believing that old pdftex's
are ok for dvi? At the moment I am not yet seriously into direct pdf
generation, and I don't like piecemeal upgrading so I'ld rather wait
till later this year.

Here again the relevant output:

%======================================================
This is pdfTeX, Version 3.14159-0.12h (Web2C 7.2)
(Fatal format file error; I'm stymied)

 TeXExec 1.2 - ConTeXt / PRAGMA ADE 1997-1999

               reading : /etc/muisbin/texexec.ini

               setting : 'TeXShell' to 'siepo' for 'all'
               setting : 'UsedInterfaces' to 'en' for 'all'
               setting : 'UserInterface' to 'en' for 'all'
               setting : 'TeXExecutable' to 'pdftex' for 'all'
               setting : 'TeXFormatPath' to '/dosd/texell/web2c/' for 'all'
               setting : 'UsedInterfaces' to 'en' for 'siepo'
               setting : 'UserInterface' to 'en' for 'siepo'

            executable : pdftex
                format : /dosd/texell/web2c/cont-nl
             inputfile : el10
                output : standard
             interface : nl
               options : verbose
          current mode : all
               TeX run : 1

              run time : 0
%======================================================

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