From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.comp.tex.context/5396 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Giuseppe Bilotta Newsgroups: gmane.comp.tex.context Subject: Re: progname explained Date: Sat, 25 Aug 2001 11:20:16 +0200 Sender: owner-ntg-context@let.uu.nl Message-ID: <1735551661.20010825112016@bigfoot.com> References: <5.1.0.14.1.20010824103737.02618c58@server-1> <5.1.0.14.1.20010823180913.024d5920@server-1> <3.0.5.32.20010822110937.007b2500@mail.northcoast.com> <3.0.5.32.20010822110937.007b2500@mail.northcoast.com> <5.1.0.14.1.20010823180913.024d5920@server-1> <5.1.0.14.1.20010824103737.02618c58@server-1> <5.1.0.14.1.20010824181036.02584238@server-1> Reply-To: Giuseppe Bilotta NNTP-Posting-Host: coloc-standby.netfonds.no Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1035395986 1303 80.91.224.250 (23 Oct 2002 17:59:46 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 23 Oct 2002 17:59:46 +0000 (UTC) Cc: ntg-context@ntg.nl Original-To: Hans Hagen In-Reply-To: <5.1.0.14.1.20010824181036.02584238@server-1> Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.comp.tex.context:5396 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.comp.tex.context:5396 Friday, August 24, 2001 Hans Hagen wrote: >>"Pretend to be 'app'". Have no idea. What does --prog-name do with >>web2c? HH> rather clever: it permits the program to filter progname specific settings HH> (paths, mem settings) from the texmf.cnf file; I guess this is what --alias does in MiKTeX as well? HH> even better would be if it could operate along two axes, so HH> that one can have format as well as binary associated settings HH> (i would like to have a context.pdftex.cfg file actually) You mean, different settings based on wether we're running pdftex, pdf-e-tex or knuth's tex? -- Giuseppe "Oblomov" Bilotta