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On 18 Mar 2004 16:57:05 +0100, Patrick wrote:
> 
> may I ask you a question: why did you port it to c?
> 

For a larger project with ConTeXt that should not depend on the availability 
of perl. We needed a very large section of Texutil (--ref and --figures), so it 
made sense to port the entire program to C. 

Essentially, we will have TeX and Texutil and bits of Texexec in a single 
executable, completely without disk-based versions of the tui and tuo file.

I'll probably end up converting some other scripts as well (texfont e.g.)


-- 
groeten,

Taco